Pierre Abbat wrote:
I know that there's an idle process (#0), an init process (#1), and many other
processes in a computer. Idle time accrues to the idle process. What I don't
understand is how 2:43 of the idle time was accounted to prime95 and the other
seventeen seconds to other processes
Hmm ... my comp has NO idle time anymore (8
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Is your computer doing all it can? Do you have idle CPU cycles laying
around that aren't doing anything for you? Put
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
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
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
At 10:03 AM 3/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
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
How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU is not
executing any process.
On a Win32
How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU is not
executing any process.
in virtually every multitasking OS, there is a special "IDLE" process. This
is usually something as simple as...
idleloop:
HLT
JMP idleloop
and this process is
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Jeff Woods wrote:
At 10:03 AM 3/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
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
How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU is
