From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 17:04:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7752016A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D4443FF7 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:04:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fj@panix.com) Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E2C487EE for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from fj@localhost) by panix3.panix.com (8.11.6p2/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) id h8C045U09542 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:04:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:04:05 -0400 From: Joe Altman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030912000405.GA5982@panix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Altman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: On 5.1, what is the process named "idle"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:04:07 -0000 Greetings, list subsribers... I've installed 5.1 and a variety of apps on a machine, in preparation for a move to 5.1 in the near future, and in the course of playing around on it, I've noticed a process called idle: ~games: top -SU root PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 11 root -16 0 0K 12K RUN 59:26 94.48% 94.48% idle ~games: more /usr/local/bin/idle #!/usr/local/bin/python from idlelib.PyShell import main main() What is idle? Is it showing the percentage of CPU unused, or some similar thing? I poked around with apropos, and man, and briefly looked around through the file tree, but saw nothing; I also note that there is no apparent equivalent process on my 4.9 machine. Thanks in advance for any answers, fj