Well the system idle process just means your computer CPU is idle. (not
doing anything) Sometimes windows will access the disk when the system isn't
busy.
Sometimes my disk drive seems active, more than it should be. When I go
into Task Manager/Processes it always says System Idle Process as taking
about 95% of the CPU time.
What is this and how can I figure out what is going on?
Re: Whats in System Idle Process? ... It shows System Idle Process bouncing around between 93-98%, ... Next click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage. ... Sometimes there's a lot of disk thrashing,... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Whats in System Idle Process? ... Sometimes there's a lot of disk thrashing,... Calling up the Task Manager, I can see that nothing is using any significant processor time except "System Idle Process", which remains at 95%+. ... In process explorer they will show as processes under the System Idle process. ... I'm not saying this is caused by malware, I saw your reply about turning off indexing stopping the issue, and NOD32 is excellent, but what other anti-malware scanners to you use that look for non viral malware, such as Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, SuperAntiSpyware, etc? ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: stupidly high system idle ... How much of your hard disk is free space? ... >>> could anyone please tell me why my system idle process in task manager... >>> iexplorer and winexplorer be running high be a result? ... >> The processor exectutes the System idle process when it has nothing else ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: permanent disk activity, why? ... The System Idle Process is just what it says: your CPU is idling, ..."jacob" wrote in message ... > my disk indicates permanent activity from start-up until shut-down. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
Re: System Idle Process ... The System Idle Process doesn't do anything, its just what the cpu does when its not doing anything. ... If the system idle process is at % it doesn't mean your processor is % busy with the system idle process hogging it,thus it's actually 2% to 10% busy. ...Adaware... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
