What does your CPU usage idle at?

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Mayhs

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I just got my computer back and before my AMD 3500 @ 2.4ghz idled at around 1-5% CPU usage and now its 15% +.
any reasons why?
and what does your CPU average at?
 
check your processes. a lot of times, flash animations on webpages you have open will cause that.

with no webpages and just foobar (kernel streaming) playing I'm at about 6% with my s754. Otherwise I'm at 0.
 
thrawn86 said:
check your processes. a lot of times, flash animations on webpages you have open will cause that.

with no webpages and just foobar (kernel streaming) playing I'm at about 6% with my s754. Otherwise I'm at 0.
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thnx....i checked all that before but it still idles with around 15% CPU usage :(
 
check for spyware lately? sounds like you have some junk in the trunk.

BTW: My birthday is also in March, though I've got half a decade on ya
 
Like the others said, you have junk in the trunk man.

I idle at 0%... if it moves.. it's not idling ;)
 
Mines March 14th.. just thought I'd jump in because my Birthday is also in March.

I'm 16 though :)
 
kwl mines on the 26th

i removed my spyware with ad-ware dont have anything better for spyware and now i idle at around 13%...
 
bring up task manager and click the processes tab... the click CPU twice to arrange list in decending order... look at the name of the process that is using the ~15% then do a search of your computer for whatever it is unless you know what it is, e.g. "firefox.exe". If it is something lame like realplayer just right click the process and click "end process", BINGO... done... that'll be $40 ;)
 
I personally find Microsoft Anti-Spyware to work better.. even though I don't agree with the software being "free" (you must have a valid key to download) it is still better than anything else I have used, although I rarely, rarely as in when somebody else uses my computer without permission, get spyware.

You do have a legit key like me right? ;)
 
Mine never idles (F@H) usually, but when it does idle it drops to 0% where it belongs (temps are around 37C idle - 42C load under XP90R)
 
Mine idles at 100% ;)
Edit. Temps are in low to mid 40s.
Keep on Folding!
 
Borgschulze said:
Like the others said, you have junk in the trunk man.

I idle at 0%... if it moves.. it's not idling ;)
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lol ;)

Mine is using 5%, and thats only on firefox.exe (i also have msn, ventrilo and winamp open)

38c CPU atm - if i left it a while completely idle it will drop low 30's (31-34)
 
The rig I'm currently on idles around 4-5%. But on the AMD it idles around 0-4%.
 
Idle, what's that? You mean when I only have 2 F@H processes going? Actually, right now, working on the computer, I'm at about 10% (Excluding F@H) with about 20 FireFox windows, Thunderbird, gaim, foobar and my FTP client.

I wouldn't know idle temps for my system either, but full load its rock solid at 31C on CPU 0 and 35C on CPU 1 right now. When the apartment is 110F in the summer, it climbs up to about 35C on CPU 0 and 40C on CPU 1.
 
mattjw916 said:
bring up task manager and click the processes tab... the click CPU twice to arrange list in decending order... look at the name of the process that is using the ~15% then do a search of your computer for whatever it is unless you know what it is, e.g. "firefox.exe". If it is something lame like realplayer just right click the process and click "end process", BINGO... done... that'll be $40 ;)
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i do that generally because limewire is annoying...ot makes my anti virus programme kill virus's like crazy so i always end limewire....but still its around 13% i dnt know whats wrong :confused:

Thnx for the suggestions keep them coming :)
 
Mine fluxes between 1-5% on either core. That's with background apps like AIM, firewall, etc.
 
hmph...
mine idled at around 3%(with more processes running) before i dont know whats wrong

will it make a difference?

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how do i post pictures? ill show u a print screen of my desktop with the process and idle %
 
It may be something called RPC Time Placeholder which for the life of me cant figure out what it is..but it uses your cpu and it isnt listed in task manager's processes list, but shows actual usage in performance tab in the graph.

Task info (google it) will show it using cpu.

I idle at 4-7% constant while Ud.org isnt running, and it pisses me off! That's like 6% of my cpu wasted. I want my performance back!! :mad: May just have to reformat! (again)

EDIT: to post, press "Prt Scrn" on the top right of your keyboard, then open paint, paste it, then save it and then upload it to an imagehoster such as imageshack.us then link us to the image..
 
There is no idle on my computer. You should all be folding :D.
 
Borgschulze said:
If I setup my K6-2 to fold, will you people stop flaunting :rolleyes:
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<shrug>...I look at it like this...why not fold? I really have no idea what I idle at because I'm always pinned at 100%. My temps are around 39-40C, so I'm ok with that and the folding program is pretty flexible and runs at the lowest priority.
 
100% 24/7 365/6

/Doesn't do much to your powerbill btw.....:D

w/o folding on, it's usually between 0-10%.

 
Well I setup my K6-2 folding for team 33 :)

Now.. to get that little milestone thing into my posts...
 
Borgschulze said:
Well I setup my K6-2 folding for team 33 :)

Now.. to get that little milestone thing into my posts...
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LOL ;)...although Oldie has been folding for a while with those totals :).
 
kirbyrj said:
LOL ;)...although Oldie has been folding for a while with those totals :).
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I know, but for future Milestones.

So in like 3 months I'll have the lowest Milestone hit :rolleyes:
 
by definition, my idle CPU usage is 0%.

However, if you are not running any foreground programs and you have 15% CPU usage, I would consider that a clear indicator of background processes hogging CPU resources.
 
kirbyrj said:
<shrug>...I look at it like this...why not fold? I really have no idea what I idle at because I'm always pinned at 100%. My temps are around 39-40C, so I'm ok with that and the folding program is pretty flexible and runs at the lowest priority.
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For me because my board overvolts bad at 100% load so it would degrade the life of mine (cpuz shows 1.56 at load but multimeter says 1.65!). Anywho, im getting about 1-8% right now, 5% firefox, 1% ypager, 1% taskmgr, 1% firewall.
 
In reply of: mattjw916
Your response of Powerbill, yes you will have a powerbill, with folding.

But if you are like some of us, we try to use our computers to heat the house to save money on the heating bill.

So here is the breakdown:
Powerbill in winter time, heating with pc's= Good
Natural Gas in winter time, High charges for using Natural gas= very bad

most of the time on my gaming pc, I peg around 50%
 
My computers don't idle so I have no clue what they would be at. Yeah yeah, I'm another one of those folding guys if you didn't already figure it out.

Anyway, all computers I have come across that did not have any spyware or virii, they would idle between 0-5% depending on the speed of the processor and how many cycles Task Manager needed. You need to find out what is using the cycles and find out what it's for. If it's something that is not needed, then look for a way to disable it if it's not spyware, adware or a virus. In the case of the latter, get it cleaned off.

 
My CPU usage on all machines when idling is betwen 0-1%, high CPU usage is probably spyware, viruii', hardware that offloads work onto the CPU (cheap network cards/modems, etc), or excessive startup tasks (winamp/realmedia/quicktime agents, software firewall, etc)


mattjw916 said:
one word... "powerbill"
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F@H won't increase the powerbill by much at all over running a idling rig 24/7. My powerbill last month was $44 total, the 3 fulltime folders in the house didn't make a dent :cool:
 
hmm i dont know what the problem is, but thanks for the sugestions so far :)

btw whats folding in a few words? i was going to do it but i forgot :(
 
Mayhs said:
hmm i dont know what the problem is, but thanks for the sugestions so far :)

btw whats folding in a few words? i was going to do it but i forgot :(
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In a few words... Basically using your idle CPU cycles to simulate the way proteins conform or "fold", in order to better understand how they fold, to be able to cure and/or effectively treat diseases caused by improper conformation of proteins (Mad cow disease, parkinsons, some forms of cancer, etc)
Check out the stickies in the Distributed Computing subforum for more info.
 
Mayhs said:
hmm i dont know what the problem is, but thanks for the sugestions so far :)

btw whats folding in a few words? i was going to do it but i forgot :(
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The answers to your questions can be found here.

 
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