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Idle Thread Taking Up my CPU
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I noticed I was running slower than usual, and in terminal did top, to find this:
I can't seem to kill the idle thread, and it's really slowing me down. Is there anything I can do?
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Last edited by el lindo; Feb 17, 2003 at 04:36 PM.
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I can't see anything, so I'll just assume there's a process consuming your cpu-time. Note its PID (the leftmost number in top) and type "kill -9 <PID>". That should take out any process, if it wants or not 
Now the picture shows up.. the CPU is in idle_thread when it has nothing to do (note its PID - it's 0, which indicates that it isn't a real process at all). So there's nothing wrong.
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Last edited by entrox; Feb 17, 2003 at 06:29 PM.
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That's not slowing you down. It's the amount your machine is idling around. You have 70.3% of CPU cycles unused.
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*sigh*
Sometimes methinks a better name for "Terminal.app" would be ".Terminal.app".
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After reading this thread, I took a look at top on my machine, and I get this:
0 idle_threa 150.4%
How is it possible to have 150% of the cpu idle?
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Originally posted by EnVoy:
After reading this thread, I took a look at top on my machine, and I get this:
0 idle_threa 150.4%
How is it possible to have 150% of the cpu idle?
Do you have more than 1 CPU?
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Yeah, he has a dual gig G4 tower. So that means he's only using 50% between the two processors, right? How does OS X seperate tasks between the two?
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I'm sorry, I just had to open this thread and laugh.
No one does searches, do they? Sometimes I just wonder what people are smoking to not get this stuff. After all, it is called IDLE...
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think people. think.
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Duh...
OK, it's pretty obvious once pointed out. But, you'll have to admit, the way top reports this is kinda lame. Why doesn't it report the idle % on each processor separately, or consider the two processors as one when reporting. You can't have any system be 150% idle, two processors or not!
Detrius:
Whatever it is people are smoking, you might do good to have a little yourself, maybe it will calm down your flames a little...
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I nominate this thread as "Teh funniest thr34d 3V4R!!!!" Seriously...I don't think I've laughed this much since, ummm...I *haven't* laughed this much before!!!
It should go on 'America's Funniest Threads'. It would surely win first prize.
Well I guess with a name like 'El Lindo' there's got to be tradeoffs somewhere.
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