On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:05:38PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote:
> > The idle task is the kernel thread that runs when the kernel is not
> > doing anything else more meaningful like running user processes or
> > servicing I/O. It takes care of running some low-priority tasks like
> > pre-zeroing memor
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:50:01PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:39:51AM +0900, Till Plewe wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:04:05PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote:
> > > Greetings, list subsribers...
> > >
> > > I've installed 5.1 and a variety of apps on a machine, in pre
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:39:51AM +0900, Till Plewe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:04:05PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote:
> > Greetings, list subsribers...
> >
> > I've installed 5.1 and a variety of apps on a machine, in preparation
> > for a move to 5.1 in the near future, and in the course of p
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:04:05PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote:
> Greetings, list subsribers...
>
> I've installed 5.1 and a variety of apps on a machine, in preparation
> for a move to 5.1 in the near future, and in the course of playing
> around on it, I've noticed a process called idle:
>
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