[ltp] kapm-idled

[Tod Harter]

Yeah, it isn't really a problem. I don't recall the exact details, but 
basically apm requires this process so that CPU speed can be properly 
regulated. (IE, at best it helps your battery life and makes your machine run 
in the appropriately fast mode, at worst I guess it might slow things down, 
you can always kill it and see what happens). 


 
On Monday 05 November 2001 01:05, you wrote:
> On Monday 05 November 2001 00:52, Rikki Hall wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I just switched to a 2.4 kernel, and I've noticed that there is now a
> > process called kapm-idled that is consuming huge amounts of cpu.  Here's
> > a line from a 'top' listing:
> >
> >  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> >     3 root      20   0     0    0     0 SW   97.6  0.0   0:57 kapm-idled
> >
> > What is this, and how can I make it behave?
>
>   That' snot really using cpu.  It just uses idle cpu cycles (sending NOP I
> believe) to conserve power.  I think there were a few 2.4 releases (not all
> official) which actually did use up CPU on me (my system was terribly slow)
> but for the most part, this never harmed anything.

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