[OpenAFS] Unknown processes after update to openafs 1.2.7

[Derek Atkins]

It surprised me, but it does sort of change the FAQ from:

Q: What are all these afsd processes (and how do I get rid of them)

to

Q: What are all these afs_* processes (and how do I get rid of them)

;)

-derek

Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> 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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