Every now and then gkrellm reports that my CPU is totally pegged for some
length of time. I see from 'top' that the culprit is something called
'kapm-idled'.
Guessing from the second word of that, I'd say it's a daemon that's
preventing kapm from running while the machine is in use. So, two
kapm-idled is a kernel daemon that is used to measure how free your CPU is
(or something like that). Basically, it is _not_ taking up this CPU time --
it merely looks like it in apps like top and gkrellm. In other words, you can
safely ignore it. Newer versions of the system monitors will be
