[NTLUG:Discuss] kapm-idled

[Greg Edwards]

Anyone have any idea what this thing (kapm-idled) could be?  I've been
all over my system and the Mandrake website.  I thought maybe it could
be related to APM for laptops but the laptop options are not installed.

I thought maybe KDE related but it shows up on both X and non-X
systems.  By non-X I mean a system that boots into console and has the
ability to run X via startX from the command line.

Now here's a kicker, I can't find the file kapm-idled anywhere on my
systems!!

I have 3 systems with fresh installs of Mandrake 8.0 and all 3 have this
process running.  All 3 show a PID of 3 and owned by root.  The process
is run by init and on 2 of the 3 systems it is burning up lots of system
CPU (sometimes upto 98%).  I have 1 machine that is still a Mandrake 7.1
system and this process does not exist there.

It seems to be the cause of service access problems when other systems
access these servers.

TIA,

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com