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 > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > % Brian Connelly % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.bconnelly.net
