On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, 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.  I figure its when prime95 gets paged out or
>something.  I rebooted a couple of hours ago after photoshop blew up and
>left the system kinda crispy, in the past 2h 48m, I show 3 minutes of idle
>time has accumulated.  2:43 has gone to prime95.  the rest to everything
>else i've done (hardly none to a number of edit windows, web browsers, etc).

How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU is not
executing any process.

phma
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