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kondemand is a kernel thread that belongs to the ondemand governor of 
cpufreq subsystem, which changes the p-states of the system, based on 
the utilization statistics. Thus it’s something that helps in power 
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<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM, jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@systemateka.com" target="_blank">jim@systemateka.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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My machine has slowed waaaay down.<br>
<br>
$ top<br>
shows kondemand hopping in and out of about sixth<br>
place in the list, and in the form of<br>
kondemand/0<br>
kondemand/1<br>
(separate processes running often simultaneously).<br>
<br>
$ man kondemand<br>
 No manual entry for kondemand<br>
<br>
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<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/anyone-knows-what-is-kondemand-759463/" target="_blank">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/anyone-knows-what-is-kondemand-759463/</a><br>

this forum's comments are largely the same as mine<br>
(wtf?), with suggestions to use a web search engine<br>
to get info and replies that the web search engine<br>
pretty much circularly refers to this topic.<br>
    The irritation is that kondemand seems to take<br>
20% CPU time.<br>
<br>
    One user claims he's shut down his laptop and<br>
removed the battery and then restored everything and<br>
rebooted with the result that kondemand then takes<br>
only 1% of CPU time.<br>
<br>
    Anybody know what is kondemand?<br>
<br>
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