Amen dude. It sucks, esp. with a laptop. The only way to get rid of the
damn thing is to recompile your kernel. Anyhoo - Mandrake - please get
rid of this! Thanks
Angus
Written by William Bouterse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 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
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