On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Angus Beath wrote:
>
> According to this from rpmfind : Advanced Power Management dock applet
> for the K Desktop Environment. I don't understand why a
> power management system uses up so much CPU time when the object of the
> exersize is to preserve power. Any ideas on how to get rid of it?
a "locate" kapm, kapmd, kapm-idle etc. finds no mention
of kapm?
Then Safrax wrote:
>This would be a powersaving (correct me if im wrong please) and heat
reducing
>feature. It sends a command to turn your cpu off when its not doing
>something and this command shows a false usage. Think of the 55-85% as
55%
>of your cpu is off 45% is on doing something.
I like this description yet high CPU state with kapm-idle involved always
results in an eventuall XFS crapout. Also today it even shutdown the
machine and
reboot involved manually fsck'ing due to multiple inode/node errors.
> william bouterse wrote:
> > Can anyone shed some light on this.
> > My system mentioned earlier in another post
> > still finds itself the victim of 55-85% CPU usage
> > from 'kapm-idled' . What is this? Why is this happening?
So either the cpu is getting too hot, or kapm is giving faulty info. This
was not happening
before installation of :
kde2.1 beta2
Xfree4.0.2-4
kernel 2.4.0-5crypto
I guess tracking down the culprit could prove interesting.
Help with where to find and disable kapm might be nice.
Thanks for the help so far people!
William Bouterse
Talkeetna, Alaska
