From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6005 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Frans Goddijn" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: New context version... Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:50:22 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <00e201c166d5$083f06e0$6601a8c0@lap> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20011105165022.031f67d0@server-1> <200111051446.fA5Ek3p00434@sol.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <5.1.0.14.1.20011105165022.031f67d0@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20011106103253.036b0fa8@server-1> <20011106150524.2ac086b4.taco@elvenkind.com> <20011106155831.A1598@bart.math.muni.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396557 6438 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "David Antos" , "NTG ConTeXt Mailing List" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6005 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6005 Sorry for the off-topicality but a propos the idle time activity... I keep my 3 CPU's nicely overheated running tasks for http://members.ud.com/projects/cancer/ see also in Dutch http://www.goddijn.com/cows.htm > > a kernel thread that executes the HLT > > instruction if the kernel has nothing > > better to do. Reason (sort of correct): > > the chip consumes less power when > > executing HLT than when doing nothing ;) > One possibility is to execute HLT, another > is an infinite loop. HLT is prefered as it > saves energy and makes CPU cooler Groet, Frans