On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Steve Pauly wrote:
I just did a clean install of 7.1 on my amd k6-2 266 desktop, keeping my /home partition from 7.0.
Kde 2 looks good except I noticed things were sluggish compared to 7.0. When I did a top I noticed that process kapm-idled was sucking up the cpu to the tune of 60 to 90%.
I discovered this was power management which I don't care about, so I tried to kill -9 it but the thing won't die.
I could not find anything on the suse site and hardly anything on deja.com.
Anyone noticed this problem? Anyone fixed it or have ideas?
This is a bug, not a feature. See the thread on linux-kernel about this: kapm-idled : is this a bug? http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0012.1/0572.html Basically all what kapm-idled does is firing HLT commands, when the kernel is idle, so the CPU uses less energy. According to the thread it's a bug, that this kernel thread increases the system load indicator. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 30 years.