From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Igmar Palsenberg <maillist@chello.nl>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:28:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001221132800.A1398@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001220101142.A6234@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012211158170.12934-100000@server.serve.me.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012211158170.12934-100000@server.serve.me.nl>; from Igmar Palsenberg on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:00:04PM +0100
Hi!
> > > What's the problem with using PID 0 as the idle task ? That's 'standard'
> > > with OS'ses that display the idle task.
> >
> > Linux has already another thread with pid 0, called "swapper" which is
> > in fact idle. kidle-apmd is different beast.
>
> Agree that it is different. But it confuses people to have two
> idle-tasks. I suggest that we throw it one big pile, unless having a
> separate apm idle task has a purpose.
You can't do that. Doing it this way is _way_ better for system
stability, because kidle-apmd sometimes dies due to APM
bug. kidle-apmd dying is recoverable error; swapper dieing is as fatal
as it can be.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-21 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-11 17:00 kapm-idled : is this a bug? stewart
2000-12-11 5:11 ` Robert M. Love
2000-12-11 15:16 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-11 15:45 ` Nick Holloway
2000-12-11 18:56 ` stewart
2000-12-11 19:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-12-11 19:28 ` Mark Hahn
2000-12-11 23:49 ` Kurt Garloff
2000-12-15 22:40 ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-17 2:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-12-17 15:26 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-12-20 9:11 ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-21 11:00 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-12-21 12:28 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2000-12-21 19:27 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-12-22 10:02 ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-22 18:50 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-12-22 18:45 ` Igmar Palsenberg
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