[OpenAFS] Unknown processes after update to openafs 1.2.7

[Nickolai Zeldovich]

>         |-keventd(2)-+-afs_background(402)
> [...]
>
> Can someone tell what they do or
> what I can do with them?

These are basically the same processes that you used to see as "afsd"
before.  I'm not sure why they're all displayed as children of keventd
(maybe some function of the way Linux does kernel threads), if that's
what you're asking.  In short, they make AFS work -- process requests
in the background, receive packets, and perform other miscellaneous
tasks.  There isn't much you can do with them, kind-of in the same
way there isn't much you can do with, say, kflushd.

-- kolya