System Idle Process outa control

[AndreL]

I encoding file to DVD and the Idle Process is up there in the 90's and 80's
but its giveing my encoder no more than 20% of the cpu and Idle Process is
taking all the cpu. Please Help me out

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I encoding file to DVD and the Idle Process is up there in the 90's and 80's
but its giveing my encoder no more than 20% of the cpu and Idle Process is
taking all the cpu. Please Help me out

"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%

 

[AndreL]

But like I said before, it has stuff to do and it not doing it, most of the
cpu power is going to system Idle process

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

But like I said before, it has stuff to do and it not doing it, most of the
cpu power is going to system Idle process

*No* CPU power is going to System Idle Process. You continue to
misunderstand what that is.

I don't know what your problem is, but that isn't it.

 

[AndreL]

I knew from the begining that when the CPU isn't doing any thing the Idle
Process is High but it wasn't doing what I needed it to do which was encoding
a MPG so I had a lot of processing to do and it was slowing my other
processes down and giveing a great part of the cpu to the Idle Precess. So
why was the Idel process so high when I have processes that need to be done.
Why is it
That is my question I hope some one understand what I am saying

I'm sorry Ken that you don't

 

[Lem]

I knew from the begining that when the CPU isn't doing any thing the Idle
Process is High but it wasn't doing what I needed it to do which was encoding
a MPG so I had a lot of processing to do and it was slowing my other
processes down and giveing a great part of the cpu to the Idle Precess. So
why was the Idel process so high when I have processes that need to be done.
Why is it
That is my question I hope some one understand what I am saying

I'm sorry Ken that you don't
:

You still don't understand.

If your DVD encoding application "has stuff to do" but isn't doing it,
then the problem is with *that* application. The indication that "System
Idle Process" is at a high percentage simply means that the *other*
processes have stopped requesting CPU cycles.

What you need to find out is *why* the encoding application isn't doing
the things it needs to do. To do that, go to a forum that deals with
that application.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[HeyBub]

I knew from the begining that when the CPU isn't doing any thing the
Idle Process is High but it wasn't doing what I needed it to do which
was encoding a MPG so I had a lot of processing to do and it was
slowing my other processes down and giveing a great part of the cpu
to the Idle Precess. So why was the Idel process so high when I have
processes that need to be done. Why is it
That is my question I hope some one understand what I am saying

Your DVD process is waiting on something, possibly for the disc to spin or
the hardware error recovery routines to finish their diagnosis and repair.

Things happen in sequence. The "n+1" thing can't happen until the "n" thing
finishes. The computer is waiting on the "n" thing to complete.

A System Idle Process of 90% means the system is waiting 90% of the time.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I knew from the begining that when the CPU isn't doing any thing the Idle
Process is High but it wasn't doing what I needed it to do which was encoding
a MPG so I had a lot of processing to do and it was slowing my other
processes down and giveing a great part of the cpu to the Idle Precess.

You are continuing to not read what I wrote. I'm probably wasting my
breath, but I'm going to say it one more time, then shut up. It is
*not* "giveing a great part of the cpu to the Idle Precess." The
System Idle Process does not use the CPU at all. It's simply the name
Windows gives to what's going on when the CPU isn't doing anything. It
isn't a real process and doesn't use the CPU at all. It's there just
to make the total add up to 100%.

It is not "slowing [your] other processes down." It is not possible
for it to do that. If you keep focusing on this, you will never solve
your problem. Look elsewhere for its cause.

So
why was the Idel process so high when I have processes that need to be done.
Why is it
That is my question I hope some one understand what I am saying

I'm sorry Ken that you don't