Hi
this is what an idle process does. as soon as there is no load on the cpu, it starts
taking over and most monitoring program will show you a cpu load of about
+50%. the only time you can see a load of 1% is between the time that the cpu loads
+goes down and the time that kapm-idled takes over. that's why it doesn't go
+below 1% (it doesn't have enough time until the idle process starts working).
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:07:42PM -0400, David Savolainen wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer Haim. My apologies for the redundant post. As
> far as I can tell though, this still does not explain why the system
> load average will not go below 1 even though I started no programs. On
> my 7.2 box, the load average would be somewhere around 0.06! Why is the
> load average so high?
>
> David
>
> Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I've already answered this on this list about 4 days ago. search in the body of
>the messages for kapm-idled.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:26:21PM -0400, David Savolainen wrote:
> > > I finally got LM 8.0 running after a fashion. What I see so far is
> > > great! My current problem is a heavy system load. The load average is
> > > at 1 to 2 even with no apps running. Running top, I notice a program
> > > called kapm-idled is consuming 30% to 50% of my cpu cycles! Does this
> > > have something to do with power management? apmd is not running on my
> > > system. What is going on here? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> >
> > Bye
> > --
> > Haim
Bye
--
Haim
