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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:40:37 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug?
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Hi!

> Technical merits and voter intent aside, this behavior is misleading and
> inconsistent with previous kernels. Tools like top or a CPU dock applet show
> a constantly loaded CPU. Hacking them to deduct the load from 'kapm-idled'
> seems like the wrong answer.

I guess we should just put even normal idle thread to be visible in
ps. It is cleaner design, anyway.
								Pavel
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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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