On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
>
> > I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the
> > Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem.
> > On my desktop (P4) this was no real problem but my laptop wasn't useable to my
> > liking.
> >
> ...have you tried this from a system runlevel of 3 instead of 5? You
> might find that the overall overhead is decreased significantly by
> booting into runlevel 3 and manually starting your Xwindows sessions -
> and the WM doesn't eat up all that resouce/cpu time...
>
> > I haven't tried 9.1rc2 (and will not awaiting 9.1 final) so I don't know if
> > the problem persists.
> >
> Yeppers!
I just finished installing kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk using urpmi.
First time that I booted it, X didn't start. I decided to take a look at
processes using top. Again, 100% processor load, with keventd hogging
99% of it.
Keeping my search with google, I found some guys reporting the same
problem, related to kapm-idled, which is supposed to save battery. I
also read that turning apm=off might help solving this problem, so I
added apm=off to append in lilo.conf. Now, when I select that kernel at
the lilo menu the machine turns off almost instantaneously. Isn't that
amazing?
Next step is recompiling this new kernel turning APM off.
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