On Thursday 05 April 2001 18:12, you wrote:
> Why does this process keep sucking up 50% of CPU ?
>
> Other posts have asked why this is compiled by default in
> the later stock Mandrake kernels and I switched from
> kernel-2.4.0-5mdkcrypto
> and have been using ;
> kernel-2.4.1-16mdk
> with no problem until recently when through
> some rpm upgrade it has reappeared to suck the Life
> out of my system and eventually kill it dead.
> Sure I can use a different kernel or recompile but:
>
> Any way around this without recompiling?
>
> Do I really need kapm-idled ?
>
> William Bouterse
> Talkeetna, Ak
Two things
1. It isn't taking up any important time look at its nice number--anything
higher than 16 doesn't run when something important is running.
2. If you are using a recent kpm to measure it, then your measuring
instrument is broken.
And it is a KDE supplied thing, anyway.
Civileme
