[ltp] kapm-idled

[Vivek Dasmohapatra]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Falco Cesare wrote:

> 
> I was playing with top on my TP i1200 (Debian 2.2 with Kernel 2.4.3) and i
> noticed the process
> kapm-idled doing over 25% of the cpu.
> 
> I think it's a kernel daemon (maybe apm=advanced power management???), but
> it seems so expensive for cpu usage...

You probably have the 'Make CPU Idle calls when idle' [CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE]
setting comiled in. I don't think you need it - try compiling it out.

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