Re: kapm-idled

[Brian Connelly <connelly@purdue.edu>]

I noticed the same process running on my laptop.  Basically what
kapm-idled is supposed to to is tell the kernel/hardware that the machine
is idle, and, on some machines, power savings MAY occur.  I disabled it
myself..

For more information, check out CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Tom Breza wrote:

>
> Hi I just instoled kernel 2.4 on my Tosh Satelite pro 4320
> and I found that proces kapm-idled is taking quite a lot of CPU time
> this is line from top
>
> PID USER  PRI  NI   SIZE  RSS  SHARE  STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM  TIME  COMMAND
> 3   root  19   0      0    0      0  SW      0 71.6  0.0  14:46 kapm-idled
>
> this proces take all the time so much of procesor Time, thats quite
> inoying, anyone know anything about it?
> I belive that is somthing with APM, in Kernel conf I took support for
> Toshiba Laptop and APM is also activate,
> This is not really good to keep on laptop becuse battery will run quickly
>
> I will be pleased for any sugestion
>
> siaraX
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