System Process Spiking

Discussion in 'Software' started by kteng, Feb 21, 2010.

  1. kteng

    kteng Private E-2

    The "SYSTEM" process in the task manager randomly spikes to ~25% CPU usage. It is almost always this number and when I play games, my FPS drops intermittently. I've already confirmed it is not a virus/malware problem. Also, I'm not sure if this will help, but I was able to grab the stack via Process Explorer:
    ntkrnlpa.exe!KiSwapContext+0x2f
    ntkrnlpa.exe!KiSwapThread+0x8a
    ntkrnlpa.exe!KeWaitForSingleObject+0x1c2
    ntkrnlpa.exe!KiSuspendThread+0x18
    ntkrnlpa.exe!KiDeliverApc+0x124
    hal.dll!HalpApcInterrupt+0xc6
    hal.dll!HalRequestSoftwareInterrupt+0x3c
    Ntfs.sys!NtfsFsdCreate+0x316
    catchme.sys+0x2fb6
    ntkrnlpa.exe!ObpLookupObjectName+0x53c
    ntkrnlpa.exe!ObOpenObjectByName+0xea
    ntkrnlpa.exe!IopCreateFile+0x407
    ntkrnlpa.exe!IoCreateFile+0x8e
    ntkrnlpa.exe!NtCreateFile+0x30
    ntkrnlpa.exe!KiFastCallEntry+0xfc
    ntkrnlpa.exe!ZwCreateFile+0x11
    ntkrnlpa.exe!IoReleaseCancelSpinLock+0x11
    ntkrnlpa.exe!KiSwapThread+0xac
    ntkrnlpa.exe!ExpWorkerThread+0xef
    ntkrnlpa.exe!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x34
    ntkrnlpa.exe!KiThreadStartup+0x16
     

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