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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >> want to waste cpu and disk io that could have been used better. So >> an idle linux box will then have a lots of non dirty pages that can >> be used immidiately without any disk io for swapping if the need >> for lots of memory suddenly comes up. > >Yes... and since many machines spend lots of time idle and many Sometimes I read on the list of proposal of things to do in the idle process. I think that the idle process _has_ to do _nothing_ per definition. If you use the idle process to do things you' ll find your machine to mess running a rc5 client in background all the time. If you need to do something of low priority run a kernel daemon reniced with low priority. Andrea[s] Arcangeli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/faq.html | ||||||||||||
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