Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:50:01 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: till@score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On 5.1, what is the process named "idle"? Message-ID: <20030912005001.GD8251@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030912003951.GA2226@plewe.is.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20030912000405.GA5982@panix.com> <20030912003951.GA2226@plewe.is.tsukuba.ac.jp>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:39:51AM +0900, Till Plewe wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:04:05PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote: > > 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: > > > > ... > > > What is idle? > > IDLE - an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python > (see www.python.org) Heh..no. The idle task is the kernel thread that runs when the kernel is not doing anything else more meaningful like running user processes or servicing I/O. It takes care of running some low-priority tasks like pre-zeroing memory pages in preparation for future demand. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/YRg5Wry0BWjoQKURAiS0AJ9HlDtNpIRpvaNzS1DoxQSKJoUtgQCgxnXw OPIasU/b2z+stBpOAgvUn34= =Fy8+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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