proc-idled

[Kurt Granroth]

der.hans wrote:
> I've noticed this morning that my laptop ( now running 2.4.2 ) has a
> process, kapm-idled, which is eating my cpu when I'm idle. I'm
> wondering if this is a new idle daemon and what it does. AIX has
> such a beast. One of the other things I note is that my cpu isn't
> running very idle due to this beast.
 
Yeah, that caught me off guard as well.  I did some searching for it,
though, and feel better now.

AFAIK it is a kernel space daemon sitting around giving the CPU
IDLE commands when nothing is happening.  The IDLE command basically
tells the CPU to take it easy and as a result, it uses much less
power.

The 99% CPU in 'top', then, isn't quite accurate.. but I don't know if
they are working on a workaround for it.
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