On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:50, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Ok, hoyt...
>
> clearly either you got up on the wrong side of the keyboard, or you're
> just normally a smart ass with few people skills. actually, since i've
> been a long time subscriber to this list the MAIL LIST ARCHIVES was the
> first place i looked. whereupon, finding NO information there OR on my
> system i turned here! and YES, it DOES use that much of the resources. the
> measurement i provided is mild as to it's usual operating status on the
> system its usually much worse. ergo the crippling of the system.
>
> so, do us all a favor and GET a personallity before answering any more
> postings, will ya?
>
> asshole!
Ummm, I must disagree. kapm-idled is a process for accounting for the idle cycles of
the CPU and it is new with kernel 2.4
6:21pm up 1 day, 26 min, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.06
67 processes: 64 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1.7% user, 31.0% system, 0.0% nice, 67.1% idle
Mem: 126924K av, 125448K used, 1476K free, 0K shrd, 1452K buff
Swap: 248968K av, 10412K used, 238556K free 31860K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
3 root 17 0 0 0 0 SW 28.9 0.0 831:32 kapm-idled
1216 root 12 0 23108 22M 1100 R 2.1 17.9 15:12 X
3546 tester 12 0 1076 1076 852 R 0.9 0.8 0:00 top
Here is my machine at the moment
Now I am initiating filesystem sledgehammer on a partition--this is 50 processes each
creating
2000 files and then randomly changing file sizes
6:30pm up 1 day, 34 min, 4 users, load average: 26.93, 7.24, 2.49
123 processes: 73 sleeping, 50 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 7.4% user, 92.5% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 126924K av, 125304K used, 1620K free, 0K shrd, 1204K buff
Swap: 248968K av, 41844K used, 207124K free 29092K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
3650 root 20 0 1736 1736 1160 R 2.7 1.3 0:01 python
3652 root 20 0 1736 1736 1160 R 2.7 1.3 0:01 python
3666 root 20 0 1724 1724 1160
Now after killing all the python routines .... Here we are
6:35pm up 1 day, 40 min, 4 users, load average: 33.11, 31.57, 15.11
74 processes: 72 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 2.9% user, 2.5% system, 0.0% nice, 94.4% idle
Mem: 126924K av, 94176K used, 32748K free, 0K shrd, 1296K buff
Swap: 248968K av, 41072K used, 207896K free 27212K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1216 root 14 0 23924 17M 940 R 3.1 13.7 15:
So, you see kapm idled is not a process in the usual sense nor does it impose a burden
on the system. I hope we will soon have new versions of ktop and top which will
properly account for the idle cycles and simply not show kapm-idled.
Civileme
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