Mersenne: Re: Getting new GIMPSers

2001-03-25 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
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

Re: Mersenne: Re: Getting new GIMPSers

2001-03-25 Thread Nathan Russell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:09:02 +0200, Steiner wrote: 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