MrCoffee Fully Optimized Messages 1,858 Location UK Sep 9, 2006 #12 Trotter said: PEOPLE!!! System Idle is just that... what percentage of your system is idle (not doing anything)!!! System Idle plus whatever is going on in processes always equals 100%. Click to expand... if "system idle process" is doing nothing then why does it use memory? Not saying I disagree with u BTW, just wondering.
Trotter said: PEOPLE!!! System Idle is just that... what percentage of your system is idle (not doing anything)!!! System Idle plus whatever is going on in processes always equals 100%. Click to expand... if "system idle process" is doing nothing then why does it use memory? Not saying I disagree with u BTW, just wondering.
Trotter Grandfather of Techist, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Staff member Messages 33,561 Location The South Sep 9, 2006 #13 if "system idle process" is doing nothing then why does it use memory? Click to expand... Because it's Windows. It takes a smidgen of RAM for the computer to calculate how much of it is doing nothing.
if "system idle process" is doing nothing then why does it use memory? Click to expand... Because it's Windows. It takes a smidgen of RAM for the computer to calculate how much of it is doing nothing.