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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JSheble
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:20 AM
To: Mandrake Newbie
Subject: [newbie] Strange CPU Load
First of all my linux machine isn't a production machine, in fact it
probably can't even qualify as a development machine either. It sits idle
for the majority of the time as I tinker with various aspects in an attempt
to learn something about Linux. I have noticed though after loading a
CPULoad DockApp that my CPU load averages between 50-80%. Since it's not
supposed to be doing anything, I thought I'd investigate.
After running ps aux, I noticed that PID #4 ([kapm-idled]) was taking up
over 90% of the CPU cycles. Itried killing it off with kill 4 but it
remains. Could somebody tell me what this process is, and how I can
successfully kill it, or even if I should kill it.
Thanx!!
Hi, this will serve as the weekly kapm bulletin. kapm is a non process it merely indicates idle cycles of the cpu and is not taking up any process load. Ignore it. The other weekly notice is that: Linux does not like idle ram and will cache into ram and then free up as needed for processes so when a monitor shows ram usage at 90% or above it is not that something is necessarily sucking up the ram it is that linux is being effecient. HTH
