From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6006 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: New context version... Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 16:25:50 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011106162225.037491f8@server-1> References: <20011106150524.2ac086b4.taco@elvenkind.com> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396558 6453 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:09:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: NTG ConTeXt Mailing List Original-To: David Antos In-Reply-To: <20011106155831.A1598@bart.math.muni.cz> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6006 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6006 At 03:58 PM 11/6/2001 +0100, David Antos wrote: >On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 03:05:24PM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > > Hi Hans, > > > > This is unrelated. I got curious and did some searching on the web. The > > kapm-idled is 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 ;) > >Hi, Taco was faster than me and absolutelly correct. The power saving is not >the only reason, each Un*x has a process with the lowest possible priority >which runs when there is nothing to do. Some kind of that behaviour occurs in >all OSs. One possibility is to execute HLT, another is an infinite loop. >HLT is >prefered as it saves energy and makes CPU cooler. That's interesting! When I run linux undocked i'll do another test and see if there's a priority bug involved. I just ran a couple of tests with docked linux and the maps test file runs in some 3 seconds less that windows, partly because mpost runs smoother from within tex under linux [i'm still hoping that fabrice will make this nice mpost dll that stays in mem] Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------