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
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 noth
Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> strange enough to me, kapm-idled consumes between 23% and 90% of the
> CPU. Why?
It consumes that much, because your system is idleing. ;) It's the
kapm *idle* daemon, and the more CPU time this kernel thread gets, the
more your system is idle. This is a ne
Lukas Ruf wrote:
> strange enough to me, kapm-idled consumes between 23% and 90% of the
> CPU. Why?
kapm-idled makes HLT calls when the CPU is not used.
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/tami_kapm-idled.html> explains this
(don't bother about this being on .suse.de ... it's a feature of the
kernel)
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Oki DZ wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Recently I switched the kernel to the 2.4-test10 version, and I then I
> > have the following:
> > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> > 2 root 17 0 00 0 SW 0 26.8
Oki DZ wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently I switched the kernel to the 2.4-test10 version, and I then I
> have the following:
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 2 root 17 0 00 0 SW 0 26.8 0.0 184:02 kapm-idled
what is kapm-idled ? what is it
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