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
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