System Idle Process

[Logan]

Theres a process titled "System Idle Process" in my
process section of my task manager that takes up to 99 of
my CPU activity at 20k of mem., but yet the usage
percentage displayed below is very low? Could anyone tell
me where this came from because it wasnt there b4, and if
this has been wuts had my audio for PowerDVD out of wack?

 

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

Idle : not occupied or employed: inactive: not turned to normal use

Rocky

 

[Thayn Moore [MSFT]]

To be a little nicer than Rocket J. Squirrel...

The way an operating system works it that is helps the processor decide what
it should do and when. The processor always needs something to do. So when
there is nothing else to do there is a process (kind of like a program) that
does pretty much nothing. It is always the lowest priority program by
nature so it only takes up the time that none of the other processes need.
If you have a program that seems to be slow yet the Idle Process is taking
up a lot of time, it is because that program is waiting on some external
action like hardware or your drive and the Idle Process is sitting in the
wait time.

I hope this helps!

--
Thayn Moore
Software Design Engineer - Test
Windows UX Storage



This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[MAP]

-----Original Message-----
To be a little nicer than Rocket J. Squirrel...

The way an operating system works it that is helps the processor decide what
it should do and when. The processor always needs something to do. So when
there is nothing else to do there is a process (kind of like a program) that
does pretty much nothing. It is always the lowest priority program by
nature so it only takes up the time that none of the other processes need.
If you have a program that seems to be slow yet the Idle Process is taking
up a lot of time, it is because that program is waiting on some external
action like hardware or your drive and the Idle Process is sitting in the
wait time.

I hope this helps!

--
Thayn Moore
Software Design Engineer - Test
Windows UX Storage



This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


wack?


.
I have learned to respect Rocket J. Squirrel's advice he

most likely just got alittle tried of the postings on
System Idle Process just as I am on all of the ? about RPC

 

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

Apologies to all, and particularly to the OP. I don't have a problem with
people asking 'dumb' questions. I certainly asked my share while I was
learning the ropes. But when I was lower on the learning curve, people read
through earlier posts to see if their question was already asked - and the
OP's question has been asked answered many times each week in this group. It
was about respecting the group. I might add that it's so much easier now to
look things up on the Internet.

Rocky