Re: Q: "kapm-idled" and CPU usage

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun Mar 18 2001 - 17:03:28 EST


On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Is there some way to hack the scheduler statistics so that idle
> processes are special cases, which do not accumulate CPU time nor
> contribute to the load average?

It's trivial. I remember seeing a patch that does exactly this
on linux-kernel, probably around the time kapmd was renamed.

regards,

Rik

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