Re: [Cooker] kapm-idled eating cpu

2001-07-05 Thread David Walluck
Mads Rasmussen wrote: >>Could also be updatedb+makewhatis. And after, the idled count is way >>down because kswapd or some ioroutine was doing some heavy lifting. >> This seems like nothing to worry about. Do you understand what idle means? Idle means it's not doing anything, so if it's not do

Re: [Cooker] kapm-idled eating cpu

2001-07-05 Thread Mads Rasmussen
> Could also be updatedb+makewhatis. And after, the idled count is way > down because kswapd or some ioroutine was doing some heavy lifting. Could be, the "symptoms" seems right > Does this happen at about 4 am your time? No more likely 4 pm my time (Sao Paulo, Brasil) Regards, Mads

Re: [Cooker] kapm-idled eating cpu

2001-07-04 Thread Alexander Werth
Am 04 Jul 2001 14:15:50 -0300 schrieb Mads Rasmussen: > > Some times my computer freezes a while for about 2-5 minutes. When looking at > top I see the kapm-idled process eating almost 100% of the cpu, then it dies > down to about 30-50 and the system starts working normal again. > > While it

Re: [Cooker] kapm-idled eating cpu

2001-07-04 Thread Will Smith
everybody. It's an idle loop for the cpu when it doing nothing. Le Mercredi 4 Juillet 2001 13:15, vous avez écrit : > Some times my computer freezes a while for about 2-5 minutes. When looking > at top I see the kapm-idled process eating almost 100% of the cpu, then it > dies down to about 30-50

[Cooker] kapm-idled eating cpu

2001-07-04 Thread Mads Rasmussen
Some times my computer freezes a while for about 2-5 minutes. When looking at top I see the kapm-idled process eating almost 100% of the cpu, then it dies down to about 30-50 and the system starts working normal again. While it freezes it does alot of swapping (I think) it does a lot of work o