Win2k: What is the "csrss" service? All of a sudden its taking up 20% of cpu on idle!!

[Heifetz]

Hmm, this is very strange. I never had this problem before, but just yesterday, while I was websurfing, all of a sudden I noticed a dramatic slow down of my computer. WHen I move my mouse across the screen, it would jerk and skip, and also moving windows. I look at my task manager and I notice that the csrss service is fluctuating between 5 - 20 % cpu time. And also IE Explorer was taking idle cpu time too. Even shutting down IE wouldn't solve the idle cpu time used by csrss. Today it just happened again, when I was on nytimes.com. But for some reason, it stopped now. What is going on!


Heifetz

 

[cirrus1]

Only thing I can help you with is that the csrss service is also running on my system with high priority.

Sorry I that I can't help more

 

[murdock2525]

It's a client sever app.Client server runtime app.8 Kb Basically speeds searching.Archives adresses. Go into tools...internet options... Temporary internet files....settings...and decrease to around 50 mb..Default its over 1000.....No need for it.

 

[JW]

csrss is the Client Server Runtime Subsystem. specifically, it's the user-mode piece of the Win32 Subsystem. It takes care of several things, including console windows and generating threads for processes as they are requested.

-jw