"System Idle Process" Using 98% of Resources???

[Guest Daave]

Re: "System Idle Process" Using 98% of Resources???

 

Barkimmy wrote:

> I have Windows XP Home, SP2. Pentium III and 1.5 Gig.Ram

>

> I know exactly what she is talking about. Mine has been doing the

> same thing and then some. When the CPU usage graph shows 2-6% of

> resources being used and the System Idle Process is at 98%, that is

> normal. When the CPU usage graph shows 98 - 100% resources being used

> and Processes show System Idle Process is using 98% of resources

> being used. That is a massive drain. The graph spikes full if I start

> any process, i.e. open or close window or even just move the mouse. I

> also noticed the numbers in the Commit Charge area continue to climb

> til they near the limit number. Then I start to get error dialogue

> boxes stacking up on the desktop. They say "out of resources" and

> "canvas does not allow draw". By then, they just keep stacking up

> until I restart. I am not sure if the crashing boxes on my desktop

> are related to the Commit Charge not releasing the memory.

 

Have you ruled out hardware problems? If not, see

 

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

 

I would also recommend Process Explorer, which is superior to Task

Manager:

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

 

It's possible there is a service acting up. Here's some good info on

services:

 

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

> Comparing the crash times to events in the Event Viewer led me to

> install Spybot and Windows Defender. I have them scan daily and keep

> both active at all times. I found one will catch something the other

> missed and vise-versa. Defender is good for observing any system

> changes that need my attention and Spybot catches the bad files

> better and gives information on ones on my system. I have several.

> Three that are like ctfmon.exe. The real file is a language

> controller for Office XP. I have Office 2000 so not sure why on my

> system to start with. I don't need the file, using only English. But,

> I can't get rid of it either. If I delete or remove it, it just comes

> back. If I disable it, it just becomes enabled again. Meantime, the

> other three trapse around my file system using up resources. Fake or

> real, if I try to delete any of them, they come back before I can get

> them all. I was about to try and track down the H_Key for real one

> and get rid of it that way.

 

Advanced Text Services shouldn't take up more than 8 MB of RAM, so

ordinarily I wouldn't recommend disabling. Still, if you want to play

around with it, you should look at:

 

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/how-to-remove-ctfmonexe/

> I also have two that are trying to look

> like Jusched.exe which is the Java Updater. One of those also uses

> the file name scvhost.exe which makes it impossible to track down

> unless it tries to go into the wrong file too.

 

Disabling jusched.exe is easy:

 

http://searchtasks.answersthatwork.com/tasklist.php?File=JUSched

 

The Answers That Work site has a lot of good info on how to diasble

certain processes:

 

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm