Re: RAM size.
> This would also (theoretically) lead to less power consumption and a
> lower electric bill. Pretty nice! Say, does that HLT instruction
> work on a i486 or only on newer CPUs? I also seem to recall, back
> when I was learning m68k assembly, that the halt instruction on there
> shouldn't be used if you want to ever do any procesing again (without
> a reboot).
however, i hate 68k assembly so much because i don't know how can i use a
"complete text-mode" on an apple.. :)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "D-Man" <dsh8290@rit.edu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Cc: "Dave Sherohman" <esper@sherohman.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: RAM size.
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:32:54AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> | On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:13:20PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote:
> | > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Alexey wrote:
> | > > You know, while running DOS or Windows, the CPU is hot (I can touch
it),
> | > > even if I do nothing. It becomes cool under Linux!!!
> | >
> | > strange, never heard of that.
> |
> | Linux (and NT, incidentally) sends HLT (HaLT) instructions to the CPU
> | telling it to shut itself down (until the next interrupt) when there's
> | nothing for it to do. So if your linux system tells you you're at
> | 30% CPU utilization, the CPU is essentially turned off 70% of the
> | time.
>
>
> -D
>
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