pengvado comments on Case study: Folding@home - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pengvado 19 September 2011 04:55:53AM 4 points [-]

Yes. System Idle Process does not execute instructions, not even NOPs. It is instead in one of the power-saving idle states, where much of the cpu is turned off until it receives a hardware interrupt.

Comment author: CronoDAS 20 September 2011 02:04:41AM *  2 points [-]

Then I'm going to stop running Folding@home, then.

ETA: I'm still going to leave my computer on at night, though, because it often freezes shortly after booting, but leaving it on lets me avoid this problem.