On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:54:45PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Debian woody with a 2.4.0 kernel. I configure my kernel > not to use ACPI but APM. When my system runs one process (kapm-idled) > is using about 60% of my cpu time. I'm a little bit confused if this > is right. > > Can anybody tell me how to decrease this cpu usage or if this is > 'normal' for this process.
I seem to recall seeing something about this on kernel-notes. Sorry, I don't have a link. If I recall, the process cpu usage will drop to a reasonable level as soon as there's something else to do. I think it's something of a known low-priority bug (and if I recall the message correctly, a solution will be in 2.4.1 -- and probably already is in the pre-patches...). -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
