ntoskrnl.exe stuck ...

[Mark Kaine]

It's constantly using 1 - 1.5% CPU... I know exactly when it started, but several PC restarts and it's still stuck doing this...  I deleted a bunch of mods and the last item took forever (I waited 10 minutes) and I already saw in taskmanager it's "system" that got stuck... so I randomly closed the delete progress bar, and since then "ntoskrnl.exe" is apparently stuck trying to delete this file...

 

And 1.5% is definitely not normal, my CPU usage while idle has always been 0.1 - 0.5% (even with apps open) but now it's 2% with ntoskrnl using up 1.5% (forever basically?)

Any way to stop this process? (the stuck "delete" process i mean, i know you you can't stop ntoskrnl, unfortunately...)

 

 

[GuiltySpark_]

3 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Any way to stop this process?

You'd essentially be killing the OS from running. That's more or less your kernel process. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntoskrnl.exe

 

What do you mean by mods? What modifications have you done to this install?

[Mark Kaine]

6 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

You'd essentially be killing the OS from running. That's more or less your kernel process. 

I know but I think there's another process that's causing this (aka probably taskmanager) ntoskrnl shouldn't even run after startup... yet it does suddenly now.

 

8 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

What do you mean by mods? What modifications have you done to this install?

Mods..... street fighter 6 mods to be specific... I just mentioned it because mods often come with weird or long names and that sometimes makes them difficult to delete for windows,but this has never been an issue so far, until now.

 

 

[AbydosOne]

13 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Any way to stop this process?

You could take a look in Process Explorer to see if it can ID the specific thread that's doing it. You may have to get the Windows debugging symbols to get an accurate fix on what it's doing.

[OddOod]

I mean, 2% isn't much. But if you got the install into a weird state, the easiest, surest way to fix it is reinstall windows

[Millios]

51 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Mods..... street fighter 6 mods to be specific...

Still need to get the game tho after I get smt that can run it

[Haswellx86]

Check Resource Monitor and see if ntoskrnl.exe is doing some drive I/O. If so, look where.

[Eigenvektor]

58 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

ntoskrnl shouldn't even run after startup...

It's the Kernel, of course it has to run after startup. Its the core of the Windows OS. It's normally shown as "System" in Task Manager, but if you go to details, you can see that it's ntoskernel.exe

 

It may be doing work for some other process, so the usage you see may be caused by something else indeed.

[Mark Kaine]

4 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

It's the Kernel, of course it has to run after startup. Its the core of the Windows OS. It's normally shown as "System" in Task Manager, but if you go to details, you can see that it's ntoskernel.exe

 

It may be doing work for some other process, so the usage you see may be caused by something else indeed.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking... Maybe this failed delete operation triggered it or maybe it didn't, I just don't understand why it doesn't stop,hence it appears to be stuck - I'll try with these monitoring options, I mean "something" has to cause it.

 

4 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

It's the Kernel, of course it has to run after startup.

I guess I meant noticably, I've never seen it hog up the top spot like this and I monitor this quite a lot... constantly around 1.5% , more than all other processes together - and it's still doing it...

 

4 hours ago, Haswellx86 said:

Check Resource Monitor and see if ntoskrnl.exe is doing some drive I/O. If so, look where.

Idk how to check the I/O but I think it's "searchapp.exe"?

 

Aka it's searching the file it couldn't delete, but deleted anyways (I mean the file is clearly gone)

 

Stupid windows... So do I just end this task?

 

Edit: nah, ending that task didn't change anything, system still at 1-1.5% constantly 

[Haswellx86]

7 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Idk how to check the I/O but I think it's "searchapp.exe"?

 

Aka it's searching the file it couldn't delete, but deleted anyways (I mean the file is clearly gone)

 

Stupid windows... So do I just end this task?

In the disk tab and opening one of the sections you can find the processes and where they are doing drive I/O. ntoskrnl is generally present and probably doing stuff with like the drive MFT and all.

 

searchapp.exe could be the Windows search and probably could be indexing it but not sure. Indexing has its own processes I think.

 

Yes, you can end that task. End tasks which are using resources when you aren't doing anything. Like the famous Microsoft Telemetry something something. Wakes up anytime on its own, and starts eating a full CPU thread doing god knows what. I used to end it, but these Microsoft products are delicate and corruption is easy. You should just give them time and let them do whatever they want. And at this point you would know why Linux seems an awesome thing to switch to.

 

ntoskrnl.exe could be doing something else as well. 1-1.5% means it isn't even close maxing out one of your CPU threads (if you have 16 threads on your 5800X3D). Make sure nothing else is going on like updates and all. And you could always try booting into safe mode and see if that goes away.