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.
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.
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.
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.