[expert] heavy idle system load

[David Savolainen]

I finally got LM 8.0 running after a fashion.  What I see so far is
great!  My current problem is a heavy system load.  The load average is
at 1 to 2 even with no apps running.  Running top, I notice a program
called kapm-idled is consuming 30% to 50% of my cpu cycles! Does this
have something to do with power management?  apmd is not running on my
system.  What is going on here?  Any help would be appreciated!  Thanks.

David