On Sunday 13 January 2002 12:47 pm, J. Craig Woods wrote: > If you are confused, you are in very good company. Over the couple of years > I have been hanging on this list, this issue has come up time and time > again. According to the Mandrake folks, i.e. Civileme, this is just the way > the Mandrake version of the kernel functions. It appears that the > kapm-idled process shows itself as using the CPU cycles but it is not > really using anything of the CPU. Go figure. Sometimes things are not what > they appear to be. For some reason, to really confuse this issue, Red Hat's > kapm-idled daemon behaves as you would expect it, which is in diametrical > opposition to Mandrake's version.
I guess it makes sense. When I run an uptime I see zero's for system load, when I run top I was seeing the system as only 50% idle and that was freaking me out. All it does is dial my isp and share the connection. But I did notice when the machine was doing some real work the kapm-idled would drop from top. Guess I better give the machine some more work to do :) Thanks for the answers. -Scott
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