is this something normal?? I do not think so??
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and when i try to terminate it i get this
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is that some kind of virus activity or trojan or worm?
is this something normal?? I do not think so??
Imageshack - wit1
and when i try to terminate it i get this
Imageshack - wit2
is that some kind of virus activity or trojan or worm?
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."-Bjarne Stroustrup
Nearing the end of finishing my 2D card game! I have to work on its 'manifesto' though <_<
Is this a joke?
Woop?
If you really want to stop the "Idle Process" from using up all your CPU, just run some very CPU intensive programs.
"I am probably the laziest programmer on the planet, a fact with which anyone who has ever seen my code will agree." - esbo, 11/15/2008
"the internet is a scary place to be thats why i dont use it much." - billet, 03/17/2010
>> If you really want to stop the "Idle Process" from using up all your CPU, just run some very CPU intensive programs.
Code:#include <cmath> #include <complex> bool euler_flip(bool value) { return std::pow ( std::complex<float>(std::exp(1.0)), std::complex<float>(0, 1) * std::complex<float>(std::atan(1.0) *(1 << (value + 2))) ).real() < 0; }
I'm just curious as to why it is reporting 28k memory usage.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
"I am probably the laziest programmer on the planet, a fact with which anyone who has ever seen my code will agree." - esbo, 11/15/2008
"the internet is a scary place to be thats why i dont use it much." - billet, 03/17/2010
Ah, x64. Wasn't thinking about that.
He's clearly using XP, and I'd assumed this would always be 16k. So maybe it's the processor being a x64.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
run CPU intensive programs??
what if i dont want to or just want to cancel it!!!
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."-Bjarne Stroustrup
Nearing the end of finishing my 2D card game! I have to work on its 'manifesto' though <_<
Not to worry it's neither a virus nor a worm.
Idle => not in action or work
System idle process simply denotes the CPU not doing any work. So if more the CPU consumed by it, the less the work is done by the CPU. So if you run any other CPU intensive process, the System is not idle anymore and hence it gets lower.
If you study about operating systems you'll come across these things in chapters related to Scheduling and stuff.
System Idle Process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- Albert Einstein.
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- Herbert Mayer
I take it it's the first time he ever opened Task Manager...
By the way, on my XP SP3 (32bit OS & processor) it also shows 28k.
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Ok, I'll officially hijack the thread.
What exactly determines the size of this process?
It's not hyperthreading either, since I have it on my processor (where 16k is reported). It can't be cores, since the math doesn't add up. I have 2 cores, so two idle threads. Just curiosity, but anyone knows?
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
It takes a surprising amount of memory to run just 2 instructions
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
The idle process actually does stuff sometimes, like zeroing out physical memory.
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
You'd think the word "Idle" gives enough information on the matter.
It's only using 16K on this 2000 system. Maybe the CPU make or model has something to do with it.
Or, *maybe*, if it does zero out memory, it could be the amount of active RAM?