you know, I read all that in several posts, but it seems weird that it
sometimes (always on mine) it shows 0% usage when I have setiathome, kmail,
real or xmms going, usually with a browser minimized or opened. My machine
always smokes. However, on a family member's machine I just put 8.0 on
The official word from Mandrake is that kapm-idle is a daemon that
measures resource usage for other processes. In the process, it fools
resource managers like top into thinking that it is chewing CPU
cycles. Don't despair, however, for it is really doing nothing of the
sort. The programme sho
On Monday 21 May 2001 17:28, you wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just found out about the next resource hungry process: kapm-idle! This
> little evil thing always gets PID 3 and can not be killed. And I haven't
> found any daemon which starts it, so can anyone please tell me what the
> heck it does? And much m
Hi!
I just found out about the next resource hungry process: kapm-idle! This
little evil thing always gets PID 3 and can not be killed. And I haven't
found any daemon which starts it, so can anyone please tell me what the
heck it does? And much more important: How the hell do I switch it off
forv
