What The FSCK Is This?!?!

[XxMaCaBrExX]

I just installed Mandrake 8.0 Beta and ever since I booted up the first time, 50% of my mem has been taken up by "kapm-idled". I can't kill it, but it's at the top of the list in "top". If I do a killall -9 it just starts up again imediately. Does anybody know what this is and how I can get rid of it? I have 320Megs of ram and it's juicing the whole thing. :(

[X_Entity]

I have no idea what it is so you probably don't want to run it. can you take it out of your init scripts to stop it starting in the first place. obviously there is some sort of daemon keeping it alive.

[Lorithar]

*hmmms*


and takes a wild guess

k APM d ... did you turn on APM in the install?
automated power management ... Personally I despise the idea ....

Hell .. I turn it off in the BIOS...

[Tyr-7BE]

hehehe..maybe you should report this to the beta team :) APM shouldn't take 150 megs of ram.

[Molecule Man]

APM is one of those pseudo users of RAM and CPU cycles. It shouldn't affect anything. Turn off APM in the startup scripts and you might need to recompile the kernel if it wasn;t a module.

[XxMaCaBrExX]

Yeah, that's waht I thought, too. But that's not what it was, becuase I never use APM seeming as I'm not on a laptop. It's got to be something else. :(

[bjz]

It is the APM daemon. Mandrake probably compiles it into the kernel by default just in case. I'd download the kernel source and compile your own kernel, to get rid of all that extra stuff you don't need. Check out the Kernel Mailing list archive (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/) and search for "apm idle" for more info about the kapm-idled daemon and the what's and why's of it