The computer spent most of its time idle while auxiliary operations such as disk access were completing.

在完成辅助操作，例如磁盘访问，的同时，计算机花费大量时间处于空闲状态。

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Conversely, when the usage of a virtual system is lower than the predefined threshold for a certain time, idle nodes are removed or memory is drawn back.

相反的，当虚拟系统的使用在某段时间内低于预定义的阈值，空闲的节点就被删除、或者内存就被收回。

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Busiest men find the most time, idle folk have the least leisure.

最忙的人找到最多的时间，懒散的人找不到空闲。

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It's supposed to work only in idle time, but what it thinks of as idle time (when the hard disk isn't working) usually doesn't jibe with how you see idle time (when you're not using the PC at all).

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They discovered that, depending on the amount of traffic in the network, devices in power-saving modes spend 60 to 80 percent of their time in idle listening.

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