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davver | 13:21 Wed 27th Oct 2004 | Technology
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My system idle process seems to be taking up most of my CPU usage (between 40 and 80%). My computer is not being particularly slow, a sluggish at times maybe, but I just noticed this process taking up all my CPU usage! Is it anything to worry about or is it normal?

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It's only taking up 16K of Memory Usage though. Odd, I thought.
13:22 Wed 27th Oct 2004
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System Idle Process measures the amount of time that your PC is doing nothing.
13:49 Wed 27th Oct 2004
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unless another process needs it your system idle process will use whatever it can of your cpu %
14:11 Wed 27th Oct 2004
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Actually thinking about it 40 - 80% is quite low what process is using the rest?
14:15 Wed 27th Oct 2004
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Well, it's now gone up into the eighties - I think I was running quite a few programs earlier, and I only have a 850MHz processor.
14:53 Wed 27th Oct 2004
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dont worry about it at all - mine is at 99%. basically means that 99% of the CPU power is..... idle!
15:16 Wed 27th Oct 2004
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That's what I said.
16:50 Wed 27th Oct 2004

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