On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Soumen wrote: > 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
[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 :) Reminds me of a story told by Fred Brooks Jr. in the Mythical Man Month. I think it was the S/360. After most of the work had been done, the engineers set about optimising various algorithms that the system used - to make it faster and more efficient. They found a particular loop that was really badly implemented, and optimised it so that it ran 80% faster! You can imagine their surprise when it had no effect whatsoever on the speed of the system as a whole. They had optimised the system idle loop. -- "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amterdam Linux Symposium) _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
