Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:04:05 -0400 From: Joe Altman <fj@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: On 5.1, what is the process named "idle"? Message-ID: <20030912000405.GA5982@panix.com>
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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
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