[plug] High CPU usage in mandrake 8.1

[Steege, Phil E]

Thanks for the replies.
I found an article on the web describing how kapm-idled is just an "idle"
process which runs when the cpu is not being used for applications.  It does
what Craig said about assisting in power saving.
As soon as I started some applications (i.e galeon, evolution etc.. ) my cpu
usage dropped to normal amounts.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig at postnewspapers.com.au] 
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 7:54 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] High CPU usage in mandrake 8.1



> I used "man kapm" but it returned nothing.
> I assume this is something involved with the power monitor daemon 
> apmd.   Is that correct?
If I remember correctly it is a process running on minimum priority that 
makes CPU "IDLE" instruction calls to activate improved power savings on 
some CPUs. I'm pretty sure its a compile option in the APM section of 
the kernel config.

k in this case will stand for kernel, not KDE :-) as per kswapd , 
kreiserfsd, ksoftirqd_CPU0, keventd, etc.

Gkrellm lets you hide or otherwise control the display of "nice" (low 
priority) CPU usage in its display. Don't know about other tools.

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