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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:03:28 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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        Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: Re: Q: "kapm-idled" and CPU usage
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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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