System Idle Process uses 99% of CPU

[Mohamed Humdhan]

Hi,

I have installed Win 2000 Server on PC with ASUS P4P800-E
Deluxe motherboard. The board carries a Parallel ATA Raid
Controller (Promise Fasttrack 378). I have used the RAID
to mirror the two 80gb harddisks.

The installation is a pure win 2000 server. The CPU
performance is always shown above 90%. I notice that the
System Idle process uses the CPU a lot.

Any idea what could be the cause?

I have tried windows update. I have applied SP3 and pre-
sp4 patches. It doesn't seems to improve anything.

I would be grateful for any help. Plss..

Thanks & regards,

Mohamed Humdhan

 

[Mohamed Humdhan]

Hi am pasting below a reply from one of a friend through
email
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SYSTEM Idle Process means this progress will monitor the
system and if any
process is asking for CPU it will give CPU resources to
this process.
Normally this process WILL take more than 90% CPU time if
the load is not
very high. You must have some other process which is
eating CPU time.

 

[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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[Mohamed Humdhan]

Well my perception of linking system idle process with
the utilisation is wrong. Infact, the CPU usage graph
shows 100%. Someone suggested to disable the raid and
see. I am going to give a try. Let me see. If you have
any other suggestion i would appreciated.

Thanks & regards,