Re: Windows Task Manager.......can someone advise on how to interpert the information?
- From: John Doe <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:08:14 GMT
Mark <i@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:08:59 -0400, RC <RC-Ü@hotmail.com> wrote:
Sometimes when I run a program, the program seems to take forever
to do its thing, YET, when I check the Windows Task Manager, under
processes, I see that the System Idle Process is between 80-95%
which tells me the computer is doing a whole lot of nothing. How
can the System Idle Process be so high if the computer is
dragging?
This is fairly normal for Windows.
In Windows XP? You mean like during 100% disk usage?
For what it's worth.
If System Idle Process corresponds to CPU activity, then that is not
common in Windows XP here. Maybe in Windows 98, especially if you're
talking about system instability or failure. But usually a hang in
Windows 98 would cause 100% CPU usage. That's one reason I monitored
CPU usage in Windows 98 to help identify freezes. There might be
exceptions even in Windows XP, but as a rule AFAIK tasks don't hang
unless they are using up the CPU or there is some other resource
bottleneck.
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