Re: system idle process

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From: Bob I (birelan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:33:34 -0500

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!

frank wrote:

> 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
>

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