From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Moyer Subject: Re: scsi error handler thread seems to run continuously Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 19:30:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52727 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753253Ab0E1Xa3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 19:30:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Mike Snitzer's message of "Fri, 28 May 2010 17:55:32 -0400") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Snitzer Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, David Zeuthen Mike Snitzer writes: > Chatting with James on #storage we arrived at the fact that in my case > the error handler was being triggered by: hald-addon-storage: polling > /dev/sr0 (every 16 sec) > > Killing hald-addon-storage stops the 16s periodic scsi error handler messages. Ahh, silence. On my system, hald-addon-storage was polling /dev/sr0 every 2 seconds. Killing this process, there's now nothing going on. Thanks a ton! -Jeff