Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2)

Donald Douwsma
2008-05-13T05:29:24Z

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