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From: Igmar Palsenberg <maillist@chello.nl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug?
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> > Agree that it is different. But it confuses people to have two
> > idle-tasks. I suggest that we throw it one big pile, unless having a
> > separate apm idle task has a purpose. 
> 
> You can't do that. Doing it this way is _way_ better for system
> stability, because kidle-apmd sometimes dies due to APM
> bug. kidle-apmd dying is recoverable error; swapper dieing is as fatal
> as it can be.

Hmm.. Means two idle task then :)



	Igmar

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