On 25 Mar 2001, at 2:08, John R Pierce wrote:
> > Hmm ... my comp has NO idle time anymore (8
>
> even with prime95 running 24/7 on my Windows2000 system, it seems to
> come up with a FEW idle cycles.
Yes, to enable low-priority tasks to respond to events (mouse clicks
etc) the scheduler makes sure every process - even the null process -
gets a few cycles every so often. If you have a "normal" number of
processes running you will probably have only about 99% of the actual
processor cycles available to _all_ user processes. What is "normal?"
Well, the task manager on my Win2K system shows 28 processes when all
applications are shut.
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