[Gllug] wierd process

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, will wrote:

> Anyone any idea what this process is?  It just won't die and it is
> eating CPU:
>
> [root at hellacool root]# ps -aux | grep kapm
> root         3 86.1  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:50 461:52 [kapm-idled]
> [root at hellacool root]# kill -9 3
> [root at hellacool root]# ps -aux | grep kapm
> root         3 86.1  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:50 462:09 [kapm-idled]

It's the idle process.  It's a kernel thread used to soak up spare CPU time
so it can do funky power management stuff.

Don't worry about it.

> Will.

Cheers
Richard


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