100% cpu problem

[Tony Hammitt]

It's the kernel idle thread, that which runs when there is nothing
else running.  It looks a little odd, but it's harmless.

It also has esoteric things to do with power management, but for the
most part it's just telling the processor to go to sleep for a very
short time.  Since the 'top' etc. programs look for which process
happened to be running when the timer interrupted them, they catch
the computer in kapm-idled a lot.

HTH,

	Tony

Mickey Newman wrote:
> 
> I have a little problem and was looking for some help.......
> 
> If I let my machine set for about 2 minutes the cpu utilization goes up
> to about 100% constant.  As soon as I move the mouse, the cpu drops.
> When I do a "top" on the command line, it says that kapm-idled is at
> 100%.  I am running Mandrake 8.0.  Anyone have any ideas or seen this
> before?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mickey
>