Re: kapmd eats 2% of my P2/400 all the time

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 09:49:56 EST


Hi!

> > Question: kampd seems to need 2% of my CPU (according to top) all the
> > time. Right now my machine has been up 6hours and its been running for
> > 6minutes of that time. What's it doing? Can I turn it off? Might not
> > seem like much, but thats nearly enough to play a mp3 ;) I just use APM
> > for poweroff-on-shutdown on this machine. Here are my compile options for
> > APM ("not set" stuff zapped):
>
> Fear Not! :-)
>
> The kapmd ONLY runs like this as a replacement for the idle task. i.e.
> it will not affect the running of any other process on the system.
> Unfortunately, I cannot make it disappear like the idle task does :-)

BTW Idle task should be dispalyed on counters, too. It would make
top's life much easier.
                                                                Pavel

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