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Re: kapm-idled



Viktor Pavlenko wrote:

> There's a daemon, kamp-idled who keeps CPU busy all the time. If the
> computer is idle, it uses 40-70% of its time. When I run something
> else it goes to sleep.
> If it's a normal behavior (as its name suggests), what is the purpose
> of it? And what is it doing?

It's sending HLT commands to the cpu. Read more about this at:

http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0012.1/0572.html

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/tami_kapm-idled.html

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