On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:03:01AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU is not
>executing any process.
Just like the brain, your computer can not `do nothing'. `Idle' time would
most likely be spent in some sort of loop, possibly a HLT loop, keeping
your CPU cool :-)
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