Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-16 Thread Alaric Ravenhall
The thing I'd like to know is if your running an ftp server, apache, mysql, postfix, and three million other services. How do you check? at command line: services --status-all If there are a bunch open, that's part of the problem. Your windows 95 system would expire on bootup if it was trying t

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-16 Thread OS
Could some of this performance hit be due to the 1 to 1 heavyweight threading model used by Linux ? Both IBM and all the Linux developers I have actually met say this is no longer up to date with POSIX standards and a pain in the butt, especially since it allows disconnected child processes to

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-16 Thread andre
The reason why konqi starts slower than ie may be related with the fact that linux writes the time you last access a file. I don't think windows does that. This may be why it takes longer. Seeing that harddisk is so increddible fast:) (but you can set this to off) On Monday 16 April 2001 09:4

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-16 Thread Randy Kramer
Civileme, I will take you up on this offer, and write to you again in a few days. First I will add the FastVram option to my XConfig file, check my hard drive parameters (and specifications) on both machines, and make a list of the daemons running on both machines, and gather the other data you

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-15 Thread Civileme
On Sunday 15 April 2001 06:30, you wrote: > Bruce F. Press wrote: > > Yes, yes, we've heard this before. It is not a satisfactory answer, > > clearly the "idle" loop in kapm-idled could use a nice sleep(15) or > > something!! > > What would be a satisfactory answer? > > Are you concerned because

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-15 Thread SI Reasoning
ems' BIOS as the > arbiter and executor of power savings - rather than > the kernel doing it > directly. > > Hope this helps... > Gio > > - Original Message - > From: "Bruce F. Press" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Se

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Bruce F. Press wrote: > Yes, yes, we've heard this before. It is not a satisfactory answer, > clearly the "idle" loop in kapm-idled could use a nice sleep(15) or > something!! What would be a satisfactory answer? Are you concerned because top shows the system being far busier than it really i

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-15 Thread Paul Giordano
the systems' BIOS as thearbiter and executor of power savings - rather than the kernel doing itdirectly.Hope this helps...Gio- Original Message -From: "Bruce F. Press" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 7:52 AMSubject: Re: [Cooker

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-15 Thread Bruce F. Press
Yes, yes, we've heard this before. It is not a satisfactory answer, clearly the "idle" loop in kapm-idled could use a nice sleep(15) or something!! Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There are good stretches of the day where my CPU spins > > at around 5

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-15 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are good stretches of the day where my CPU spins > at around 50% or more and the process spinning is > kapm-idled. This is not a problem in 7.2. --=-=-= http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s14-1: 1.Why is kapmd using so much CPU time? (REG) Don't w

Re: [Cooker] why does kapm-idled spin the cpu so often?

2001-04-15 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, SI Reasoning wrote: > There are good stretches of the day where my CPU spins > at around 50% or more and the process spinning is > kapm-idled. This is not a problem in 7.2. Go to www.mail-archive.com/cooker%40linux-mandrake.com/ and search for "kapm-idled" ; you'll see milli