Okay... I found out the reason with a lil' googling... was a bit hasty... my mistake ;-)
---------------Original Message------------------ From: Soumen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Linux India Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: LIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mail-Followup-To: Soumen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linux India Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>Content-Disposition: inline >User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i >Subject: [LIH] [kapm-idled] : why it is eats my mem most >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help>>List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe>>List-Id: Technical list for helping people with installation and configuration issues <linux-india-help.lists.sourceforge.net>>List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe>>List-Archive: <http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=linux-india-help>>Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:32:43 +0530 > >Hi All, > >The "top" listing is : > >--------------<snip> >61 processes: 60 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped >CPU states: 2.7% user, 34.9% system, 0.0% nice, 62.3% idle >Mem: 254588 av, 87548 used, 167040 free, 268 shrd, 5948 buff >Swap: 385484 av, 0 used, 385484 free 32184 cached >m >7m PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMANDm > 4 root 16 0 0 0 0 SW 31.5 0.0 2:18 kapm-idled > 1936 soumen 10 0 1060 1056 840 R 0.9 0.4 0:00 top > 1 root 8 0 528 528 460 S 0.0 0.2 0:04 init > 3 root 8 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd > 5 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 > 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd > 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreclaimd > 8 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush > 9 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated > 10 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd > 14 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald > 94 root 8 0 652 652 556 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 devfsd > 246 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald > 256 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald > 1005 rpc 9 0 568 568 480 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 portmap > 1027 root 9 0 616 616 504 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 syslogd > 1035 root 9 0 1212 1212 460 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 klogd > 1084 root 8 0 536 536 472 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 apmd > 1109 daemon 9 0 556 556 480 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 atd > 1145 root 9 0 1032 1016 832 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 xinetd >--------------<snip> > >The "ps" listing is : > >--------------<snip> >root 4 1 32 21:13 ? 00:05:25 [kapm-idled] >root 1084 1 0 21:13 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apmd -p 10 -w 5 -W>--------------<snip> > >What is this "kapm-idled"...and why is this _constantly_ and _consistently_ >eating around 30-80% of my CPU resources... "apmd" is listed on the 4th line>from the last and using only 0.2 % of the resources... this is present even>when I'm in runlevel 3 on the console and KDE or X is _not_ running... > >There is no mention of this in the /var/logs... (grep kapm * = Nothing) > >If this is not necessary, how can I disbale this... Any clues... > >-- >__________________________________________________________________________>Webber < >webber at tatanova dot com > >Linux nova.starlight.com 2.4.8-26mdk i686 >In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice,>there is. > >_______________________________________________ >linux-india-help mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
