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High CPU usage
Name: catabatic Date: October 17, 2009 at 22:03:48 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: CPU Product: Acer / Aspire 4520 Subcategory: General
Comment:
hai.. can sombdy help...i've got no idea why my CPU usage is very high.. 4 ur informtion, the CPU usage 4 system idle process somtimes reach 50%..can sombdy give idea how to fx it??
Name: Nigel Spike Date: October 18, 2009 at 02:14:35 Pacific
Reply:
Idle here means "not used". If your active processes use 49%, the remaining 51% are idle.
Nigel
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Response Number 2
Name: catabatic Date: October 18, 2009 at 06:18:36 Pacific
Reply:
tQ.. but I still don't understand.. is it normal condition? although the idle is 50..but the others are 0.. n sometimes CPU usage reach 100%..
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Response Number 3
Name: Derek Date: October 18, 2009 at 12:24:03 Pacific
Reply:
If you are not doing much the idle process will typically sit at around 99%.
some other bloke...
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Response Number 4
Name: catabatic Date: October 18, 2009 at 12:33:55 Pacific
Reply:
owh..thanks....
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Response Number 5
Name: redxiii Date: October 18, 2009 at 17:01:29 Pacific
Reply:
When your System Idle Process reaches 50%, is there any single program that is taking up the majority of the other 50%? If there is a program other than "System Idle Process" that is constantly using anywhere close to 50% of CPU resources or more, and you notice you're not doing much on your computer, then you have a problem.
It's always nice to have some feed back after things are fixed =)
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Response Number 6
Name: catabatic Date: October 19, 2009 at 00:42:48 Pacific
Reply:
yeah!! that was happened to my notebook sometime.. tQ..is that caused by virus or spyware??
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Response Number 7
Name: Derek Date: October 19, 2009 at 05:27:13 Pacific
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