26 Mar
2001
26 Mar
'01
16:54
Today, Jon Clausen smoke something and in the trip wrote...
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