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rob86, on 16 October 2010 - 04:24 PM, said:
I think IDLE is showing how much of your CPU is not in use. 100% would be a good thing then. If one program is using 34% and another is using 5%, your idle % would be 61. I don't think it can 'eat' anything.
It is not clear with me which is the case since ideally on my windows XP, IDLE represents the free cpu process that I can use without slow down but on Windows 7 it freezes the computer for 1-4mins (commonly 1min) which is odd for me. It is also possible that there are extra garbage memory cleaning being done by IDLE process or there was an IDLE cpu leak which unfortunately hits random users.
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If your computer don't hang between high IDLE cpu usage then everything is good. That is what I am getting on my windows XP which constantly have at least 60% IDLE cpu use.
