Messages in this thread | | | From | (Bernd Eckenfels) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle" | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:35:37 +0200 |
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Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> wrote: > This patch renames the "swapper" process (pid 0) to a more appropriate name "idle". The name "swapper" is not obviously meaningful and confuses a lot of people (e.g., when seen in oops report). > Patch not tested, but I guess it works. :-)
on win the system idle process shows up in taskmanager so you can see its cpu usage and ctx switches scheduled from it. We could avoid the skipping in /proc, also?
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