Never mind, I found this in regards to the CPU load..
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/tami_kapm-idled.html

it's expected and natural... sorry to waste the bandwidth...

At 07:20 AM 2/19/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>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!!
>
>
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