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05-09-2008, 11:56 AM
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| True Techie  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Perth, Australia
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 |  System Idle Process This seems to be coming up in the Processes list of the Task Manager quite a bit, and was wondering if it was anything weird, because I haven't ever seen it before, and it is using 80+ CPU? See image below.  Thanks, Jordan.
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05-09-2008, 02:06 PM
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| Major Moderator Autobot  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In Trotter's crawl space
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| Re: System Idle Process That process is exactly what it sounds like. IDLE.  That means how much of your CPU is not being used when you are doing nothing with your PC. If that number was at 10 or less i would be worried as your CPU is being taxed.
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05-09-2008, 02:08 PM
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| Techie  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California
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 | Re: System Idle Process That's correct. If that process is not 99 on idle, then something is wrong with the computer. I think of it as a cache of unused CPU, though I may be wrong.
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05-09-2008, 04:56 PM
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| Re: System Idle Process Mine uses 16K. That is about normal for me.
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05-09-2008, 05:52 PM
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| Re: System Idle Process I only have a P4 3.4GHz. Not dual core or anything. I have HT that is aobut it. Not even 64 Bit.
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05-09-2008, 07:11 PM
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| Re: System Idle Process I literally LOL every time I see this asked. Not at you, Sinci, but at the situation in general. Until someone tells you, it doesn't click that it is the amount of processing power just sitting there doing nothing.
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05-09-2008, 08:08 PM
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05-10-2008, 01:19 AM
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| Re: System Idle Process Yeah, it's kinda stupid now I think about it :| Considering it's called "System Idle Process" My CPU's a Pentium M 1.1Ghz
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