System Idle Process using all CPU?

[Mr. tech]

My System Idle Process seems to always have a high number in the CPU column. Is this bad?

I've done a bit of searching and downloaded the Processes Explorer and it said that the Hardware Interrupt was causing it... I took a screenie.

What do you think? Is this a problem? How can it be fixed?

[baronvongogo]

system Idle process is meant to be high, its when your system is well idle its not doing anything if you run another app u`ll see that cpu idle process usage go down and applied to that app.

[Trotter]

Think it through... system IDLE... as in not doing anything.

System Idle is the percent of your system's capability that is basically just sitting there twiddling its thumbs.

[Romani48]

thats right! System Idle is the difference from the computer full load 100 to the using resources
so for example if you are running a program that is using 20% of systems resources then the IDLE PROCESS is at 80% -> this means that 80% of cpu load is free!!!