A spurt in CPU usage

[Raghu Kiran]

Hi
I have this "unusual" thing which happens with my
machine. There is a process- "System Idle Process" which
uses the CPU at regular intervals of time very
intensively. When I open the task manager, I get a near
100% CPU usage.
Could someone tell me what in the world is happening?

Thank You
Raghu

 

[Juan Pablo Barrios [uy]]

When you open the Task Manager an go the the performance tab... ¿What is the
CPU usage?

 

[Wislu Plethora]

-----Original Message-----
Hi
I have this "unusual" thing which happens with my
machine. There is a process- "System Idle Process" which
uses the CPU at regular intervals of time very
intensively. When I open the task manager, I get a near
100% CPU usage.
Could someone tell me what in the world is happening?

Thank You
Raghu
.

Here's a simple way to explain this "unusual" phenomenon:
Get a dictionary and look up "idle" and find out what it
means.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

I have this "unusual" thing which happens with my
machine. There is a process- "System Idle Process" which
uses the CPU at regular intervals of time very
intensively. When I open the task manager, I get a near
100% CPU usage.
Could someone tell me what in the world is happening?

It's not at all unusual. The same thing happens with everyone's
machine.

"System Idle Process" is not any problem at all. That's just the
name for what the system is doing when it's not doing anything.
It's there to make the total add up to 100%.

 

[Steve C. Ray]

System Idle Process is exactly what it says. If your System Idle Process is
100% it means that your CPU is doing nothing, just waiting on you.

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem. I will have no programs running and the CPU is at 100%. It happens when I am only using Word in class taking notes. The fan keeps kicking on and off to cool the board when there is no reason for the board to be hot.

 

[NRC]

It is as its name implies, in other words it telling you how much of your
processor capacity is idle and available for other use.
Total this with all other running processes will always total 100%. For
instance if you are running a program that is shown as using 20% of your CPU
resources, the System Idle Processes will show at 80%

 

[Richard Urban]

You're NOT using your computer to it's fullest potential, that's what! The
system "IDLE" process tells you that it not doing ANYTHING for a good
percent of the time.

Now, DO SOMETHING!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Break out a dictionary and look up the word "idle," sometime. ;-}
The "System Idle Process" metric is the amount/percentage of time that
your CPU has *nothing* to do. A reading of 98-99% is generally
considered a good thing, and readings above 90% are normal. Think of
it like a car's engine idling in your driveway before you place the
car in gear.


Bruce Chambers

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[Alex Nichol]

I have this "unusual" thing which happens with my
machine. There is a process- "System Idle Process" which
uses the CPU at regular intervals of time very
intensively. When I open the task manager, I get a near
100% CPU usage.

That is the system 'twiddling its fingers' - the process that gets run
while there is nothing whatever to do, and it is waiting for something
to happen. If you are running nothing but the Task manager, to look at
things, expect System Idle to be around 98 or 99 %