What is System Idle Process and why is it taking so much resource?

[LS21]

i am looking at the task manager, and its taking up to 95% of my chip processor power. can i do a end process on it? is it a spyware software? (the last thing i put on my computer was itunes)

 

[paulxcook]

*leans forward at monitor with narrow-eyed grimace*

 

[dennilfloss]

It's the amount of time your cpu is doing nothing.

 

[Hyperlite]

don't worry about it. trust me. its a system process, its not harmful.

 

[Anubis]

it means that 95% of your CPU power is doing NOTHING

 

[Special K]

It's the "idle" process - it's not really doing anything. Basically any of the OS's time slices that don't get allocated to another process get used by the system idle process, which is probably just a loop of NOPs.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Why is it taking so much resource?

Because you are touching yourself.

 

[HN]

that number for System Idle Process is not "taking up" CPU. it's actually how much cpu is "spare". watch your "CPU Usage" percentage at the bottom of task manager. as that goes up, the System Idle Process goes down. no worries.

 

[bigrash]

lol noob!

 

[tasmanian]

The only way to stop it is to delete system 32 in the windows folder.













































Dont do that.

 

[Nohr]

Who is General Protection Fault and what the hell is he doing on my computer!?

 

[Drako]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
The only way to stop it is to delete system 32 in the windows folder.

LOL, I was going to suggest the same thing, but I'm not that mean . BTW, it's probably easier to just delete pagefile.sys.

 

[nakedfrog]

This explains it pretty well

 

[1EZduzit]

Sometimes a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

 

[sdifox]

you should look for the ANY key.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
The only way to stop it is to delete system 32 in the windows folder.

Dont do that.

No OP, go ahead and do that.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I pay all this money for a fast CPU and it's just sitting there IDLING? What a load of horseshit. It should be doing my taxes or some shit....

 

[alien42]

bwahahahahaha

please tell me the OP is not in a technical field

 

[FoBoT]

hey, LS21, do you know what pickles are made of? i need some help figuring this out

 

[Narse]

LOL I really really hope this is a joke thread!!

 

[Legendary]

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[spidey07]

I'm pretty sure this is a repost.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
hey, LS21, do you know what pickles are made of? i need some help figuring this out

That's easy, they are made of dill and the sweet ones are made of sweet.

 

[mugs]

I'm pretty sure this was a joke... the iTunes solidified it for me.

 

[biostud]

You've got a lazy CPU. It happens for 1 out of 1000 processors, because of a fault in production the metal is over stretched it needs to rest.