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:
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> 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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