Re: System Idle Process uses 99% cpu

[Raffaele Fragapane <jaco(at)thejaco.com>]

X2 CPUs have some ACPI issues of sorts when in tandem with some monitor 
devices (dell FP 24 and 20 in my case).

I know it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it took me a solid 3 months 
after I got my new X2 at home to figure out why the hell win would boot 
in 8 seconds flat but then stick to high CPU load for minutes after the 
boot (or after a screensaver kick).
Getting rid of ACPI on win solved it right away.

I also suspect that AMD's Cool&lagged drivers might have been involved 
in some of this clusterf**k of an issue.

The problem obviously never presented itself in linux, at all... thanks MS.

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Wayne wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification there Holger. I wonder why the lag is 
> occuring at that time then L Perhaps a reboot and defrag is in order. 
> Thanks!
>
> -Wayne-
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> *From:* owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] *On 
> Behalf Of *Schoenberger
> *Sent:* Friday, April 28, 2006 8:03 PM
> *To:* XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> *Subject:* RE: System Idle Process uses 99% cpu
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> The "idle process" is the percentage of the CPU which is not used...
>
> If your idle process is 100%, then your CPU does not do anything.
>
> (Beside some rumours about secret MS functions hidden in the "idle 
> process")
>
> Holger Schönberger
> technical director
> The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
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>     *From:* owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]
>     *On Behalf Of *Wayne
>     *Sent:* Friday, April 28, 2006 11:47 PM
>     *To:* XSI(at)Softimage.COM
>     *Subject:* OT: System Idle Process uses 99% cpu
>
>     I’m experiencing some lag in XSI when modeling due to what seems
>     to be the System Idle Process soaking up cpu cycles. Running 64bit
>     xsi on 64bit xp, with dual, dual core amd processors. My system
>     idle process will skyrocket up to 89-99% and that is when the lag
>     occurs in the viewport in XSI. I’m not sure if the two are related
>     whatsoever, hence the reason I’m asking here. I searched
>     microsoft.com for the system idle process but turning up nothing
>     thus far. Anyone able to toss me a clue? Thanks
>
>     -Wayne-
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