[Gllug] wierd process

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 04:54:36PM +0000, 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]
> 
> Will.

It's part of the kernel that sends the HLT instruction to the CPU to 
converse power when not the CPU is not busy with other processes - 
very useful on laptops or those machines with hot CPUs. There's no 
need to kill it, btu if you want to then switch off APM in the kernel.


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