From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 12 May 2008 22:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id m4D5Sxdl022830 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:29:03 -0700 Received: from cxfsmac10.melbourne.sgi.com (cxfsmac10.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.55.100]) by larry.melbourne.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA11667; Tue, 13 May 2008 15:29:38 +1000 Message-ID: <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:29:38 +1000 From: Donald Douwsma MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) References: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> In-Reply-To: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote: > Hi guys, I know that not all kernel thread users are converted to > start only when needed but the following is little annoying specially > when I'm not even using jfs, xfs and gfs2. > > Look at the ps output from a standard distro 2.6.24.5 kernel after a > fresh boot: ... > > Kernel config can be found here: > http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/kernels/hugesmp.s/config > Your distro is building all of these modules into the kernel. CONFIG_XFS_FS=y CONFIG_JFS_FS=y CONFIG_GFS2_FS=y This isnt exactly standard practice, normally they'd be set to =m and only used if required to mount a filesystem. You may want to ask the slackware people why they chose to do this for their hugexxx.s kernels. Don