Reduce resource usage of an Idle task

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Published on 2010-06-13T04:30:46Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 4:32 UTC
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I find that in uC/OS-II RTOS, there is an idle task that gets executed when no other task is ready to run. If an idle task can consume resources, how can we reduce it ?

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