system idle process

[frank]

For some reason the system idle process is using 99% of
the cpu usage. I have no idea how to correct this. I don't
even know what the system idle process is for. Can anyone
help. Thanks

 

[Dave Patrick]

There's nothing to fix. Simply means your pc is doing nothing.

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| For some reason the system idle process is using 99% of
| the cpu usage. I have no idea how to correct this. I don't
| even know what the system idle process is for. Can anyone
| help. Thanks

 

[Bob I]

It's an indication of how much more the processor could do if you
started some programs up and gave it something to do with all that Idle
time!

 

[Bruce Chambers]

For some reason the system idle process is using 99% of
the cpu usage. I have no idea how to correct this. I don't
even know what the system idle process is for. Can anyone
help. Thanks

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.

To "correct" this, _use_ the computer.

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[Amal Khailtash]

I have had this problem for a long time now after a windows security
update! I understand that System Idle Process should be high when
other processes are not using the system. But what is weired is that
when I am using the computer for actual processing, System Idle
Process is still high and it even is higher than the active process.
Say SIP is @ 90% and the active process @ 10%. When I go to the
performace tab in task manager and show the kernel times, almost 90%
of the CPU time is spent in the kernel even when other processes are
running.

I have run virus scan, spyware scan, parasitics scan, ..., but the
computer is way slower than before. No harware failure or know
conflitcs either.

Please help.............