Re: Kswapd future (was: Re: new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed)

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:36:16 -0400


> > Is there some way you could tap into the "idle" task processing time to do t
his?
> Yes there is... We could reprogram the idle task to do some
> special task instead of idling.
> This shouldn't be to difficult...

If you search thru the backlogs of this list, I think you'll run across mingo's
various "idle time killers". I remember one was called eccd that would do
memory tests while your machine was idle. A lot of those had nifty concepts.

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