System Idle Process

James240

hi guys :hello:


Is there any reason as to why when i look in the task manager to find out why the harddrive is taking a long time to do anything that the system idle process is always hogging CPU usage?

Its not allt he time just off and on, it goes on for a bit and then settles


Any ideas anyone?

Any help would be most appreciated


James

Little_John

how about this

There is a huge clue in the name

system idle, the system is idle ie doing nothing if it is 99% of the cpu then only 1% is being used.

Chippy_Minton

System idle process using high CPU % means the computer is idle and not running the other processes, so it wouldn't account for the slow hard drive access. Try running https://www.ccleaner.com and then defragging the drive.

Also run PageDefrag to defrag system files.

And Start - Run - type chkdsk c: /r - OK. Type Y to the Y/N prompt and reboot.

James240

Little_John wrote: »

how about this

There is a huge clue in the name

system idle, the system is idle ie doing nothing if it is 99% of the cpu then only 1% is being used.

How about this, im trying to do stuff so therefore it isnt idle :rolleyes:

James240

Chippy_Minton wrote: »

System idle process using high CPU % means the computer is idle and not running the other processes, so it wouldn't account for the slow hard drive access. Try running www.ccleaner.com and then defragging the drive.

Also run PageDefrag to defrag system files.

And Start - Run - type chkdsk c: /r - OK. Type Y to the Y/N prompt and reboot.

Will give that a go :beer:

Woby_Tide

James240 wrote: »

How about this, im trying to do stuff so therefore it isnt idle :rolleyes:

What you try to do, and what the PC does are completely seperate, the task manager is correct, the system is doing close to nothing, most probably whilst it waits for info from elsewhere. If it's impacting this badly then defragging as above or even reinstalling your OS may be the best bets once you have taken your data onto a backup