APM Daemon in Mandrake
Ben Pfaff
blp@cs.stanford.edu
31 Dec 2001 00:10:51 -0800
Marr <marr@shianet.org> writes:
> My brother-in-law is running Mandrake 8.0 and he had his PC over for some
> tweaking the other day. At one point, I noticed that the CPU meter was
> pegged at around 100%. A quick check showed that the 'kapm-idled' process
> was hogging the "lion's share" by far.
That's normal. kapm-idled gets scheduled when there's nothing
else for the CPU to do; e.g., when the system is idle. If it's
getting near 100% CPU then there's almost nothing else that the
system should be doing. It's a good thing that it gets scheduled
if there's nothing to do, because it slows down the CPU, which
then runs cooler and uses less power. This is a bigger deal on
laptops but still good for desktops.
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