On Friday 21 April 2006 16:40, Mikado wrote: > Hua Zhong wrote: > > Swapper does not do these things. It just happens to be "running" at that time (and it is always running if the system is idle). > > > > IOW, it is indeed an "idle" process. In fact, all it does is cpu_idle(). > > Really? Are your sure that swapper only does cpu_idle()??? Yes. Idle is by definition Nothing. -- Greetings Michael.
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