Re: Is this bad?

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 4 May 1999 21:46:03 +0100


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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