CPUIDLE: Question?

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Monte Comeau

I was curious about the cpuidle program that is always dispalyed as a
running process in the Task Manager.

My system sometimes slows down to a crawl and when I check to see what
program is the culprit I see that cpuidle is taking up 99% of my cpu power.

Is this normal? I disable the program and the computer does not seem to be
worse for wear. I understand is a utility for cooling the CPU?? How does
it do this if it is using up all the power?

Any thoughts on this would be helpful..

Thanks
 
System Idle Process % = (1 - (the sum of all the other processes' CPU
usage)) * 100.
 
Well what would be making my CPU max out at 100%?
Task Manager says nothing is running...
 
Monte Comeau said:
I was curious about the cpuidle program that is always dispalyed as a
running process in the Task Manager.

My system sometimes slows down to a crawl and when I check to see what
program is the culprit I see that cpuidle is taking up 99% of my cpu power.

Is this normal? I disable the program and the computer does not seem to be
worse for wear. I understand is a utility for cooling the CPU?? How does
it do this if it is using up all the power?

Any thoughts on this would be helpful..

Thanks
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Do you actually have a program called "cpuidle", or are you talking about
the "System Idle Process"?
 
So is the graph on the Task Manager/Performance Tab maxed out at 100%
continually?
 
You, or someone using your computer installed it. If you now find you don't
like it, uninstall it!

It's is NOT part of Windows XP.

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aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Monte said:
I was curious about the cpuidle program that is always dispalyed as a
running process in the Task Manager.
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CPUIdle was an old program for Win9x, which ought not to be running in
XP. That has System Idle Process, a small loop that the system goes
around when there is nothing whatever to do, waiting for an interrupt.
That loop includes the HLT instruction to keep temperature down, the
function CPUIdle did for Win9x. Expect S I P to be at a high percent
when nothing is going on.
 
So is the graph on the Task Manager/Performance Tab maxed out at 100%
continually?
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Yeah...when my system gets bogged down and slows to a crawl the CPU
performance is at 100% and stays there.

I check the running processes and there is nothing using up the cpu????
 
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