Lenz, Funny, I saw this too yesterday :) Tried to kill it, and it refused to die. Then realized that its a kernel thread and so I gave up.
From the thread, it didn't look like this was recognised as a possible bug, as no one came forward to fix it, and its still there in 2.4.0. Any idea if its on the list or already fixed in the later kernel. In my opinion, its misleading and gives a false sense of load.
-- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/ Lenz Grimmer wrote:
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