B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel.
In the Operating Sysytems 101 course I took back in the dark ages over 20
years ago it was pointed out that having an idle process eased the design
of an OS.
If you don't have an idle process then the you have to have an OS
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I am not a kernel expert, but I would suspect that kapm-idled fulfils the
reuirement. Or perhaps there is yet another idle process buried in the
kernel and kapm-idled has another purpose. Any kernel experts out there
care to comment?
It also
and also instead of just idles of nop statements, I believe that it
uses instructions that minimise gate operations which reduces power
consumption and hence heat production. On my Athlon 1.4 room heater it
means a drop of 2-4 degrees c over a light load. A kernel complile or
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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:31 am, you wrote:
and also instead of just idles of nop statements, I believe that it
uses instructions that minimise gate operations which reduces power
consumption and hence heat production. On my Athlon 1.4 room
J.P.
As popular as this Question is maybe we should:
A. Post the answer once a week for the heck of it. *grin*
B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel.
C. Every one put the link below into their sig so that people can find it
all the time *double grin*
James
On
On Friday 08 February 2002 02:58, you wrote:
J.P.
As popular as this Question is maybe we should:
A. Post the answer once a week for the heck of it. *grin*
B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel.
C. Every one put the link below into their sig so that people can
I wonder what the process kapm-idled, which shows up
when I run the top command as the process using the
most cpu resources. Is this a necessary process or can
I be removed. I also run freeBSD and the CPU in this
last one looks a lot less loaded since it doesnt have
kapm-idled running.
Rob...
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Roberto Armenteros wrote:
I wonder what the process kapm-idled, which shows up
when I run the top command as the process using the
most cpu resources. Is this a necessary process or can
I be removed. I also run freeBSD and the CPU in this
last one looks a lot less loaded
On Thursday 07 February 2002 16:36, you wrote:
I wonder what the process kapm-idled, which shows up
when I run the top command as the process using the
most cpu resources. Is this a necessary process or can
I be removed. I also run freeBSD and the CPU in this
last one looks a lot less loaded
