Help Norton 360 v5.

[killer bee]

I have Norton 360 v5 version 90 days trial. This is the first time I'm using Norton product. I have little bit problem regarding this product. Norton "Ideal time process" eat more-than 50% of CPU usage. Sometimes it reach 95%. So how do i reduce it?
Please look at this screen shot.

 

[zigzag3143]

I have Norton 360 v5 version 90 days trial. This is the first time I'm using Norton product. I have little bit problem regarding this product. Norton "Ideal time process" eat more-than 50% of CPU usage. Sometimes it reach 95%. So how do i reduce it?
Please look at this screen shot.

Its not Norton, its firefox in this picture.

Can we get your system specs?

 

[kado897]

Hi killer bee. Your screenshot shows Firefox on 68%. I don't see the Norton process there at all.

zigzag beat me to it

 

[David777]

Norton applications and processes come under the name symnatec usually.
Which in this picture is almost at the bottom, using 5Mb of ram and 0 cpu.

 

[mjf]

Of course when Norton (or any other virus scanning software) is actually doing a scan it will use CPU & RAM resources.

 

[killer bee]

So what is that "System ideal process"? Is it Norton process or not?
Actually Firefox also eat lots of CPU how do i reduce it?

 

[Phone Man]

So what is that "System ideal process"? Is it Norton process or not?
Actually Firefox also eat lots of CPU how do i reduce it?

System Idle Process is when the CPU is not doing anything. It is "Idle" and waiting for a request to do something. Also if you have lots of add ons in FF it will use more CPU or have lots of Tabs open.

Jim

 

[killer bee]

So what is that "System ideal process"? Is it Norton process or not?
Actually Firefox also eat lots of CPU how do i reduce it?

System Idle Process is when the CPU is not doing anything. It is "Idle" and waiting for a request to do something. Also if you have lots of add ons in FF it will use more CPU or have lots of Tabs open.

Jim

No buddy I have only open 3 tabs, but this system ideal process use more ram and also Firefox 4.01

 

[kado897]

As has been stated earlier the system ideal (idle) process shows CPU that is not being used by other processes. It is NOT actually being used by that process it is just a reporting feature. Don't worry about it.

 

[killer bee]

So how do i reduce Firefox CPU usage?

 

[kado897]

That I can't help you much with killer bee. I am only an occasional FF user and don't experience that problem. My FF CPU is very low. I would guess that it is either a plugin or extension causing the problem. You may want to try disabling them one at a time to see if any are the cause but someone else with more knowledge of FF may have a better idea.