The evil that kapm-idled wreaks

[Warren Togami]

Is this behavior compatible with the CPU throttling on notebooks, like AMD
PowerNow, or the equivalents on Transmeta and Intel?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Deven Phillips" <d-spair at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 5:53 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: The evil that kapm-idled wreaks


> Jeff and Warren,
>
> The kapm-idled shows up that way in mandrake because of the patches they
> have applied. You cannot get rid of it, but it essentially takes the place
of
> the idle process. Which means that any CPU time that you are not using is
> idle, and therefore shows up under kapm-idled. This will not hurt
anything,
> and is not taxing your computer at all.
>
> Deven