oh boy are you asking that on this list again... it gets asked once every day usually, and the answer is probably in the archives of every linux distro using 2.4 kernels. (as a result people get annoyed answering it every day over and over...) so if you get flamed, you;ve been warned :-) kapm-idled is a kernel process, it isn't using your cpu up. its an idle process and its job is to make more efficient use of your CPU.
do not sweat it, and don't try to kill it, if you want more info, do a search for it on the mandrake archives, you'll get more then you can read in a month. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JSheble Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2002 10:20 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] Strange CPU Load First of all my linux machine isn't a production machine, in fact it probably can't even qualify as a development machine either. It sits idle for the majority of the time as I tinker with various aspects in an attempt to learn something about Linux. I have noticed though after loading a CPULoad DockApp that my CPU load averages between 50-80%. Since it's not supposed to be doing anything, I thought I'd investigate. After running ps aux, I noticed that PID #4 ([kapm-idled]) was taking up over 90% of the CPU cycles. Itried killing it off with kill 4 but it remains. Could somebody tell me what this process is, and how I can successfully kill it, or even if I should kill it. Thanx!!
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