Re: kapm-idled

[Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:24:23PM +0000, Tom Breza wrote:
> Hi I just instoled kernel 2.4 on my Tosh Satelite pro 4320
> and I found that proces kapm-idled is taking quite a lot of CPU time
> this is line from top
> 
> PID USER  PRI  NI   SIZE  RSS  SHARE  STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM  TIME  COMMAND
> 3   root  19   0      0    0      0  SW      0 71.6  0.0  14:46 kapm-idled
> 
> this proces take all the time so much of procesor Time, thats quite
> inoying, anyone know anything about it?
> I belive that is somthing with APM, in Kernel conf I took support for
> Toshiba Laptop and APM is also activate, 
> This is not really good to keep on laptop becuse battery will run quickly 
> 
> I will be pleased for any sugestion

Its the time the kernel spend doing "APM" (Advanced Power Management)
idle calls into the BIOS. This normally should lead to less power
consumption.

Flo
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