[OpenAFS] Unknown processes after update to openafs 1.2.7

[Nathan Neulinger]

This surprised me as well... I think sometime recently, they changed
from being listed as afsd to being listed as specific names. They've
always been there, just never dipsplayed that way before.

On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 02:34, Nickolai Zeldovich wrote:
> >         |-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
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