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Re: stayed up for 36 hrs, slept 14hrs, stayed up another 36.
Posted by Brandon Martus at 2/19/2001 4:43 PM EST


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In Reply to: Re: stayed up for 36 hrs, slept 14hrs, stayed up another 36.
Posted by EddieMcD on 2/19/2001 4:36 PM EST:



: What's sleep, and where can I download it?

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Jan 01) [foldoc]:

sleep

1. (Or "{block}&quot When a
{process} on a {multitasking} system asks the {scheduler} to
deactivate it until some given external event (e.g. an
{interrupt} or a specified time delay) occurs.

The alternative is to {poll} or "{busy wait}" for the event
but this uses processing power.

Also used in the phrase "sleep on" (or "block on&quot some
external event, meaning to wait for it.

E.g. the {Unix} command of the same name which pauses the
current process for a given number of seconds.

2. To go into partial deactivation to save power.



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