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Jaey
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Jul 6, 2004, 12:44 PM
 
My stepbrother has been complaining that his computer is slower than normal. He wasn't dangerously low on disk space, and he has plenty of ram for the things he does. So I opened the terminal and ran "top". At the bottom, under kernel_tas, there was another thing running called "idle_threa". It said it was using 88% of the cpu, and it had a PID of 0. I was wonder if this is normal (it's not on my computer) and how to fix it if it's not.
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Jul 6, 2004, 01:50 PM
 
"idle_thread" is just idle. It represents how much CPU you're not using. I don't think it's the source of the problem
     
Jaey  (op)
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Jul 6, 2004, 03:14 PM
 
Okay, thanks. Any idea what it could be then?
     
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Jul 6, 2004, 03:55 PM
 
Not without seeing more details.
     
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Jul 7, 2004, 03:05 PM
 
How much RAM does he have, how much hard drive space is available, what type of computer is it. processor speed, etc...
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