(This is part of a post to the newbie list. Sorry to those subscribed to both lists).
I am back in Mandrake 9.0 after installing RC2 with all its updates. The one to blame is a process named "keventd" which overload my processor (Toshiba laptop 5005-S504, PIII 1.1Ghz, 512 Mb) I downloaded the three iso images and checked their MD5 string. Then I updated everything using the string that I got from the plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php. I noticed that KDE was sort of slow, so I started gkrellm and the processor load was at 100% all time. I assumed that there might be a problem with ACPI (for the first time power management was working nicely under Mandrake), so I turned it off using lilo noacpi and reboot. The same: processor load at 100%. I turned ACPI back on. I launched KDE System Guard and found the guilty process: keventd (no idea about what it does or what it means). It kept using between 80 and 90% of processor computing power. I remember having this sort of problem with kernel 2.4.20 but I gave up and went back to 2.4.19 May somebody give me a hint, or link or reference (RTFM are also welcome) related to this strange behavior? Does anybody know what keventd is or what it does? TIA -- __ / \\ @ __ __ @ Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / // celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / <_/ \__\\ //__/ // fax : +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com // pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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