MerlinTheWizard Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 As the title suggests: I noticed some kind of "weird" behavior of the "Task Manager" on my comp. which has Hyperthreading enabled.The "CPU time" column for the "System Idle Process" is double what it should be and goes twice as fast as the "natural time" (2 s for 1 s of time). Is this the same for everyone else? (I didn't find anything about this on MS's web site or in the docs).After all, it's kind of understandable, what does a global "CPU time" mean for a pseudo-multiprocessor system? How is time counted when the "Idle Process" has two threads which can "run" concurrently (although they don't do anything since they are idle)?But I still think this is a bug in the Task Manager, which obviously isn't that clever at handling Hyperthreading.Anything to say about that? I know it's just a little detail (hoping this is just a display detail and not the sign of a bigger bug), but I'm still curious...For people who are running Windows XP with a P4/HT, is this the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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