Idle process @ 90%, hard drive busy
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From: blackhead on 1 Aug 2010 21:26 Over the last day, my computer has started to behave strangely. The hard drive is constantly being accessed, as is the floppy drive and the Sytem Idle process shows 90% CPU useage. I thought it might be a Windows update, but usually there's an icon in the task bar to show this. Any idea as to what's going on? cheers
From: Daave on 1 Aug 2010 22:29 blackhead wrote: > Over the last day, my computer has started to behave strangely. The > hard drive is constantly being accessed, as is the floppy drive and > the Sytem Idle process shows 90% CPU useage. > > I thought it might be a Windows update, but usually there's an icon in > the task bar to show this. > > Any idea as to what's going on? I'd like to know which processes account for the 10%. Also, what has changed over the last 24 hours? New program? New update? In System Restore, what is listed?
From: Jim on 2 Aug 2010 11:05 On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:26:30 -0700 (PDT), blackhead <larryharson(a)softhome.net> wrote: >Over the last day, my computer has started to behave strangely. The >hard drive is constantly being accessed, as is the floppy drive and >the Sytem Idle process shows 90% CPU useage. > >I thought it might be a Windows update, but usually there's an icon in >the task bar to show this. > >Any idea as to what's going on? > >cheers "Sytem Idle process shows 90% CPU useage" ; useage or idle ?
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 2 Aug 2010 14:44 On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:26:30 -0700 (PDT), blackhead <larryharson(a)softhome.net> wrote: > Over the last day, my computer has started to behave strangely. The > hard drive is constantly being accessed, as is the floppy drive and > the Sytem Idle process shows 90% CPU useage. > > I thought it might be a Windows update, but usually there's an icon in > the task bar to show this. > > Any idea as to what's going on? "System Idle Process" is not any problem at all. "Idle" means "not in use." That's just the name for what the system is doing when it's not doing anything. It's there just to make the total add up to 100% If it's 90%, it's simply another way of saying that only 10% of the system is being used. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
From: Unknown on 2 Aug 2010 15:45
How can it possibly be 'usage'? "Jim" <bojimbo261(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:qind56p7c1ficqtpg7cf9ql5bhkvatrdp5(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:26:30 -0700 (PDT), blackhead > <larryharson(a)softhome.net> wrote: > >>Over the last day, my computer has started to behave strangely. The >>hard drive is constantly being accessed, as is the floppy drive and >>the Sytem Idle process shows 90% CPU useage. >> >>I thought it might be a Windows update, but usually there's an icon in >>the task bar to show this. >> >>Any idea as to what's going on? >> >>cheers > > "Sytem Idle process shows 90% CPU useage" ; useage or idle ? |