[ltp] kapm-idled

[Markus Alt]

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...
> 
> Any idea?

I've also found that rather strange behaviour (at the first glance)
after upgrading to 2.4 some days ago. Searching on the IMHO really
helpful SuSE support database gave me more insight:

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/tami_kapm-idled.html

HTH,
Markus

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