Re: kapm-idled no longer idling CPU?

[Borsenkow Andrej]

>
> I'm pretty sure this is a legit problem and not just kapm-idled 
> reporting its time incorrectly since my laptop has gone from about
2-1/2 
> hours of battery life in early 2.4 versions to less than 1 hour of 
> battery life under the same conditions for recent kernels. Plus, if I 
> exit everything until I'm just sitting at a shell prompt, I'll see 
> kapm-idled start to receive time again. (Of course, the laptop isn't 
> much fun when it's not running anything...) 

I confirm this. I have two types of gkrellm reports:

28C CPU temperature/0% CPU load
31C CPU temperature/50% CPU load system

(well, in the average :-)

In the latter case I see kapm-idled using exactly these 50% CPU. 

> I've seen this on a number of laptops and desktop machines since about

> 2.4.9 or so. 

It was in all Mandrake 2.4.+ kernels I remember; I still have
2.4.8-31.1mdk, I'll try it.

-andrej