[NTLUG:Discuss] kapm-idled

[Michael Collins]

I have been told it is something to do with power managment and although 
it looks like it is using all the cpu, it really isn't.  !!!

There were lots of discussions about it when it first appeared.  I just 
ignore it on mandrake boxen.  It does not appear to act the same on my 
Conectiva boxes.  It is shown in top, but never *seemingly*  steals the 
processor like on Mandrake.

"Not to worry" I was told and it seems like good advice.


Greg Edwards wrote:

> 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,
> 
> 



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