>> 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
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