I believe that reflects the percentage of time that there is no other activity on the CPU... meaning you have roughly 24% CPU utilization by actual processes. Look for the next highest CPU utilization, and that is likely to be where the real problem is.
Also, check memory and pagefile/swap usage too... it's not just CPU load that can kill your machine's performance. -- Ken Fischer, CCNA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint: 9523 54B6 D67B BBFB 53B3 2F3B 7E81 0891 C495 CB50 -- On 26 Sep 2002, baba ali wrote: > > > > Hello > > My machine is responding really slow now.After I run Process viewer > program,here is what I find > > Process:Idle Pid : 0x0 Cpu :76% Desciption:system idle > Priority:0 Thread :0 > Properties : no path , no command line , no current directory > no parent ,no version > > > Did my machine get infected with a malicious code,How come a process > running idle can take up to 76% of Cpu ? > > Thank you again! > > Baba >
