we have answered this so many times, you know we should come up with a 
better answer, something with a little humour, kinda like the unsub fee for 
folks trying to unsub on list.


On Wednesday 26 September 2001 08:05, you had thoughts to the concept of:
> It's been done to death loads of times.
>
>
> The overall result is don't worry about it, it's an idle task which soaks
> up unused cycles for accounting purposes. It's not really using ANY of your
> processor cycles.
>
> Look at the output from 'top' in a console. Check out the CPU utilisation
> figures at the top of the display. See?
>
> Steve Flynn
> NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
> * 01603 687386
>
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Rick Commo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>       Sent:   Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:11 AM
>       To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>       Subject:        RE: [newbie] kapm-idled?
>
>       The characteristic as seen on my 8.1b3 machine - 850Mhz Duron with
> 512MB -
>       is that if nothing else is happening I see a background usage of
> about 45%
>       utilitzation if I am eyeballing the little usage display accurately.
>
>       However, as soon as I move the mouse or do any real work and stop,
> the CPU
>       usage is flat for a bit then kapm-idle kicks in.
>
>       I was going to ask the same question my self if I couldn't find an
> answer in
>       the archives.
>
>       Cheers,
>       -rick
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