At 12:24 PM 1/13/2002 -0500, Scott wrote: >I guess I am confused, in top it shows my system as being 50% idle, then >kapm-idled is showing as 48% of the CPU and other processes making up the >rest. >-Scott >On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:39 am, Michael Leone wrote: > > kapm-idled is kpam-IDLEd - the time your CPU is idle. It's not an > > executing process. > >-- >Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel version 2.4.8-34.1mdk >uptime: 1 hour 6 minutes.
If you are confused, you are in very good company. Over the couple of years I have been hanging on this list, this issue has come up time and time again. According to the Mandrake folks, i.e. Civileme, this is just the way the Mandrake version of the kernel functions. It appears that the kapm-idled process shows itself as using the CPU cycles but it is not really using anything of the CPU. Go figure. Sometimes things are not what they appear to be. For some reason, to really confuse this issue, Red Hat's kapm-idled daemon behaves as you would expect it, which is in diametrical opposition to Mandrake's version. Confusion saves our sanity... J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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