Once upon a time, José Romildo Malaquias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Hello. > > Suddenly there is process taking most of my CPU usage > that was not expected. top lists it as > > 3 root 16 0 0 0 0 RW 86.4 0.0 8:04 kapm-idled > > By box is a Red Hat Linux 7.1 one, with upgrades (and > some packages from Rawhide) Pentium II 400 MHz with > 128 MB. The kernel version is 2.4.9. > > This stated today. Previously it was not running or it > was running but without taking most of the CPU. > > Any hints on how to solve this? You must have compiled in your custom 2.4.9 kernel the "make CPU idle calls when idle" (IIRC, or maybe some other option in the APM section) which causes this. I suggest you have a look at the APM section of the default Red Hat kernel configuration, and keep the same unless you really know what you are doing ;-) Matthias -- Matthias (Thias) Saou http://www.marmotte.net/ --------------------- French - Canadian - Spanish resident http://rpmforge.net/ - Hairy and scary RPM related projects http://freshrpms.net/ - RPMs just like mom used to make them _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
