Nils Philippsen said once upon a time (Sun, 25 Jun 2000):
> Hi all,
>
> with those kernels, kapmd eats about 30%/avg. of the CPU:
>
> I would be interested why it does this, as its purpose is to save power
> instead of keeping the CPU busy (at least that's my opinion, whether or not
> that counts is another issue).
Alan Cox answered this several weeks ago. That is kapmd idling your cpu
while it IS NOT in use. It is "busy" idling your cpu to save you power.
In summary, this is normal behavior.
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
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