100% cpu problem
Tony Hammitt
tony at speedscript.com
Thu Jul 5 17:00:34 CDT 2001
It's the kernel idle thread, that which runs when there is nothing
else running. It looks a little odd, but it's harmless.
It also has esoteric things to do with power management, but for the
most part it's just telling the processor to go to sleep for a very
short time. Since the 'top' etc. programs look for which process
happened to be running when the timer interrupted them, they catch
the computer in kapm-idled a lot.
HTH,
Tony
Mickey Newman wrote:
>
> I have a little problem and was looking for some help.......
>
> If I let my machine set for about 2 minutes the cpu utilization goes up
> to about 100% constant. As soon as I move the mouse, the cpu drops.
> When I do a "top" on the command line, it says that kapm-idled is at
> 100%. I am running Mandrake 8.0. Anyone have any ideas or seen this
> before?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mickey
>
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