Re: kapm-idled


Subject: Re: kapm-idled
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 12:50:20 AKST


On Tuesday 19 March 2002 09:37 am, Craig Callender wrote:
> I believe it's the Advanded Power Management?
>
> -- Craig C.
>
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Adam Elkins wrote:
>
> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:31:06 -0900
> From: Adam Elkins <LinuxRobot@yahoo.com>
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: kapm-idled
>
>
> I have noticed this kapm-idled thing....anyone know what that is? It
> seems to be taking up alot of cpu cycles, and it's priority changes all
> the time.
>
> PID USR PRI STAT %CPU %MEM COMMAND
> 4 root 10 RW 6,7 0.0
> kapm-idled
>
>
>
> ?
>
> Adam
>
>
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Actually it is a count of idle cycles, begun with kernel 2.4. It doesn't
really take up anything but unused CPU time,

Civileme



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