On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:13:45PM +0200, vester wrote: > > can anyone explain to me what exactly the process kapm-idled does and why > > it takes up 50-90% of cpu usage? > > Kernel APM IDLE Daemon > > It's a pseudo process that doesn't actually _do_ anything. It just puts the > CPU to sleep when there's nothing else going on. > > > i've never noticed it taking up that much usage until today. i cannot stop > > it from top... > > Yeah, the idled showing up in the process list is a new 'feature' of the 2.4 > series kernels. Give it a little time and a new version of top will come out > that knows enough to ignore it. > > > i suppose it's got something to do with the apm kernel > > modules, but i really don't know. it just seems to make my system really > > slow :-( > > Have you noticed an actual performance decrease or are you just assuming that > it's slowing other things down because of the high CPU usage displayed? > hmmm, i thought it would be something like this. actually, at first i noticed an actual slowdown (but then, that was most likely to viewing a java web page with mozilla) which made me first check top...after that, i was too concerned about the high numbers to give an unbiased statement i guess. anyway, thanks a lot...i was really worried for a while =)
