> Is there some way to hack the scheduler statistics so that idle
> processes are special cases, which do not accumulate CPU time nor
> contribute to the load average?
It's trivial. I remember seeing a patch that does exactly this
on linux-kernel, probably around the time kapmd was renamed.
regards,
Rik
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