I am happy to remain idle.
I would rather work than remain idle.
As the sole breadwinner for his family of four, he could not remain idle for long.
For instance, developers who did not have to deliver features or fix defects in C1 worked on their C2 items rather than remain idle until C1 was finished.
Those questions remain idle, though, without either careful data reduction by a skilled statistician, or the kinds of analysis and reporting that S makes a snap.
When fault analyzer is loaded manually, it processes any new crashes in the databases, and then terminates; it does not remain idle waiting for the next crash to be delivered.