evil process!
first of all, many thanks to 
compwiz for helping me out with my last post.
after fixing the problem i was having, i subsequently found out that i have a process called "kapm-idled" (which apparently is a kernel process?) that is eating 75% or more of my cpu on average. that is JUST AFTER REBOOTING. in fact, this last time i rebooted, i logged right in as root, typed top, and there it was, sitting at 92 FREAKING PERCENT. what is this process for? i didn't have it with my old version (7.2) of mandrake, but ever since i upgraded to 8.1, it's there.
if this process isn't critical to my system's operation, then how the heck do i get rid of it? it's really slowing my system down. if there's a way to get rid of it without recompiling a kernel, that would be preferable, since i didn't compile this kernel to begin with, it came with the system. i tried turning the CONFIG_APM_IDLE option in /boot/config to "n", but that didn't help.
grrr, i didn't need this headache today... too much else to deal with... as always, thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
compwiz for helping me out with my last post.after fixing the problem i was having, i subsequently found out that i have a process called "kapm-idled" (which apparently is a kernel process?) that is eating 75% or more of my cpu on average. that is JUST AFTER REBOOTING. in fact, this last time i rebooted, i logged right in as root, typed top, and there it was, sitting at 92 FREAKING PERCENT. what is this process for? i didn't have it with my old version (7.2) of mandrake, but ever since i upgraded to 8.1, it's there.
if this process isn't critical to my system's operation, then how the heck do i get rid of it? it's really slowing my system down. if there's a way to get rid of it without recompiling a kernel, that would be preferable, since i didn't compile this kernel to begin with, it came with the system. i tried turning the CONFIG_APM_IDLE option in /boot/config to "n", but that didn't help.
grrr, i didn't need this headache today... too much else to deal with... as always, thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
