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System Idle Process taking 99% CPU?

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jere01

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Just wondering if this is a normal occurence in WindowsXP. Just having a look at my processes and was wondering why the System Idle was using between 70 and 99% of my CPU. Maybe this is normal? Maybe not?

Thanks!
 
was wondering why the System Idle was using between 70 and 99% of my CPU

Because the system's idle maybe?
 
That's CPU TIME not CAPACITY. If you look at the performance tab, you should see that you're floating between 0%-4% CPU utilization. 98% of the time, your CPU isn't doing anything, so NT-based OSes issue HALT commands that make the CPU do nothing. Bonus feature is that it'll run cooler as a result. (That's what CPU Idle or Rain did for Win9X OSes, issue the HALT command that they didn't have built in.)
 
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