Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 May 1999 21:46:03 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Is this bad? |
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Hi,
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 11:20:14AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> This brings up an interesting question. When the system is idle, who > gets charged for the CPU time? Is it kflushd? It reads zero on my system.
Nope, the idle task (task[0]) runs, which AFAIK you can't get info for. It generally runs hlt instructions on x86 architectures anyway.
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