Re: Q: "kapm-idled" and CPU usage

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:14:28 +0000 (GMT)

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> Several months ago, kapmd was renamed to kapm-idled in an attempt to
> signal users that it was a special process, and that its CPU time wasn't
> "real CPU time." This hasn't silenced the bug reports and confusion.

And instrumenting the number of calls to the apm idle function I am
not convinced that apm idle is working for all laptops as other people have
claimed.
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