Unwanted process uses large % CPU
Since my upgrade from 6.4 to 7.1 (on 2 systems), a process called kapm-idled takes up 50 to 90% of my CPU (on a PIII - 650). I've disabled everything that has something to do with apm (in rc.config). How can I stop this process? and what is it doing? Because my systems are up 24/24, 7/7 I'm worried about the CPU being busy all the time. Thanks for any help Kind regards Guy Van Sanden
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:53:08PM +0000, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
Since my upgrade from 6.4 to 7.1 (on 2 systems), a process called kapm-idled takes up 50 to 90% of my CPU (on a PIII - 650).
Get all of the updates for SuSE 7.1. I had this problem, and one of the updates fixed it. You will have to do this manually, because YaST only gets critical (security) updates automatically. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!"
On Monday 26 March 2001 16:53, you wrote:
Since my upgrade from 6.4 to 7.1 (on 2 systems), a process called kapm-idled takes up 50 to 90% of my CPU (on a PIII - 650).
I've disabled everything that has something to do with apm (in rc.config).
dunno - that *ought* to be sufficient...? man apm tells me it's some power-management daemon. The "k" suggests to me that it's some kind of frontend for apmd in KDE? Since you disabled apmd in rc.config it probably doesn't help much, but there's a bunch of stuff in /etc/rc.config.d/apmd.rc.config that has to do with apmd's behaviour, other than that I suggest you check the BIOS for power-management settings?
How can I stop this process?
Either "System Guard" or looking up the PID via "ps ax", and then "kill <PID>" should do it...
and what is it doing?
Manage power?
Because my systems are up 24/24, 7/7 I'm worried about the CPU being busy all the time.
Well I saw this mentioned somewhere on a Debian mailing-list and AFAIK the actual load on the CPU from this process is much less than reported. I wouldn't worry too much, unless it steals time from the user-processes. I mean it's not like it's going to wear down your CPU...;-) Jon Clausen
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On Monday 26 March 2001 16:53, you wrote:
Since my upgrade from 6.4 to 7.1 (on 2 systems), a process called kapm-idled takes up 50 to 90% of my CPU (on a PIII - 650).
man apm tells me it's some power-management daemon. The "k" suggests to me that it's some kind of frontend for apmd in KDE?
hi, it's the Kernel-APM-IDLE-thread :) it's a kernel based cpu cycles saver.. it seens to be eating all the cpu, but if i'm not wrong :) it is eating the cpu woth the HALT assembler instruction, that makes the cpu stay cool :) (diferently from winblows, wich does not this when the SO is idle, so the cpu stays hot even when it is idle) Regards, Adilson Ribeiro
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