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| Thread ID: 61891 | 2005-09-20 05:19:00 | Why? System Idle Process is killing my PC | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 389584 | 2005-09-20 05:19:00 | Attached file: Clipboard01.jpg (imagef1.x10hosting.com) (52 KB) Why is it so bad when Ive tried to kill off everything that I possibly can, including system restore etc What else could it possibly be doing? Its really badly slowing the whole system :-/ Updated AV, run Anti-Spyware etc Chill |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 389585 | 2005-09-20 05:30:00 | Surely, the "Idle process" only uses time if nothing else is running. That is, it runs when the processor is "idle". I suppose it would be possible to give it a high priority, so that nothing else could run unless it needed to do I/O or something (that is, never). :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 389586 | 2005-09-20 05:38:00 | Wasn't it the case where ths higher is better? It gets out of the way when something else needs it, so if it's using 95% of the processor it was a good thing. Unless I'm completly missing the point here...? | Edward (31) | ||
| 389587 | 2005-09-20 06:03:00 | Read the original post! It's slowing down Chill's PC! Ehhhh, have anyone of you meatheads considered that this is actually a feature and not a flaw like you perverted people are wont to think? Don't you see that Microsoft has designed this to use up CPU cycles so that viruses and other malware have no chance to run? |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 389588 | 2005-09-20 06:12:00 | The higher the system idle is, the less resources the system is using. It works in reverse with displaying the %CPU usage, the higher the figure the better things are overall. From your screenshot you are only using 24% of the system CPU at that time, with 21% of that belonging to inotask.exe which is the eTrust AV. A google shows this app can chew up the CPU cycles when performing regular checks for updates. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 389589 | 2005-09-20 06:27:00 | Surely, the "Idle process" only uses time if nothing else is running . That is, it runs when the processor is "idle" . I suppose it would be possible to give it a high priority, so that nothing else could run unless it needed to do I/O or something (that is, never) . :D my suggestion is when no application running the system idle process will be 99 to 100% , so need not to worry abt the idle process . . bye |
npraveenn (8915) | ||
| 389590 | 2005-09-20 06:44:00 | qui.exe is using alot of memory | Prescott (11) | ||
| 389591 | 2005-09-20 06:57:00 | Buy a dual core or ditch the crappy AV. ;) | vapo (5203) | ||
| 389592 | 2005-09-20 07:14:00 | qui and inotask are, but we kinda have to live with them So opinions are its the AV app updating itself? It took approx 6-7 minutes to update?! During this time if I clicked on the 'explorer' icon in my Quicklaunch, it would take approx 20 seconds before it would all be displayed :( |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 389593 | 2005-09-20 07:47:00 | [i] Why is it so bad when Ive tried to kill off everything that I possibly can, including system restore etc Chill imagef1.x10hosting.com |
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