I've done some reading up on this...it appears in some kernel discussion groups that this is actually a misrepresentation of actual CPU usage. I think they changed the name of the process to kapm-idled (from kapm) to show that it's not actually taking up resources even though the process shows heavy usage. I think it's okay. thanks, CD --- Adilson Guilherme Vasconcelos Ribeiro <adilson@rapunza.org> wrote:

Today, Yannis Zikos smoke something and in the trip wrote...

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I recently upgraded one machine from k6-2 to Duron (obviously also the mainboard). Since that I noticed that process kapm-idled uses up to 90% of CPU constantly. Definetely this is a problem, but I can't think of any solution. Anybody has a clue about the causes?

Hi,

this is the kernel apm idle thread... it eats almost 100% percent of the cpu with "halt" instrutions, to make it run cool

Regards, Adilson

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