I see the messages too. It souds like the bug I was complaining about on the list a few days ago (video dies when disk activity is high). Hopefully if the new kernel is detecting the bug, it can work around it. We shall see. Kapm-idled is the idle loop in kernel 2.4.x, it's not a real process. On Monday 23 April 2001 00:55, you wrote: > Install of 8.0 went well, and this version is really beautiful! But we > do have some anomalies, perhaps with the new kernel 2.4.3, that did not > show up in 2.4.1 or 2.4.2. > > From the time I first rebooted after install, stderr is sending the > following lines to syslog (from dmesg): > > Apr 20 20:25:00 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... <4>probable > hardware bug: > clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard. > Apr 20 20:25:00 localhost kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring chip > configuration. > > This message repeats through the boot and into syslog during the > session....syslog and /var/log/messages were up to 15MB in two days. > > At the same time, the CPU is getting creamed by the "kapm-idled" process > (pid 3 on boot), anywhere from 51-85% of the cycles are being grabbed by > this process. I don't know what this process is, but it looks like it > has something to do with power management. > > At this point, if I confirm that the 2.4.3 kernel is having a problem > with power management on motherboards with certain Athlon-class > chipsets, I might recompile the kernel and take out APM, but I hope > Mandrake can check this out and patch the kernel. > > FYI, I did not get these messages/CPU overload problem with kernels > 2.2.18, 2.4.0 or 2.4.1. > > System Info: > > Athlon 650 MHz > MSI-6195 mobo (AMD 756 chipset) [note: I had similar problems with > FreeBSD 4.2 on this board) > Corsair PC100 CAS2 SDRAM > > Appreciate if any Mandrake developers on the list check this out. > > Tom Snell -- Madness takes its toll; please have exact change Will Reinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
