I was recently installing linux on a poor 386sx, with 4M of memory. I noticed that during a compile of a kernel, 2.0.30, which took 35 hours to complete, vmstat showed a large idle time. I was swapping like mad, and came to the conclusion that time spent in swap is accounted for in the idle time?
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