hal forks many hald-addon-storage processes

[David Peer]

Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:14:04AM +0300, David Peer wrote:
>   
>> David Zeuthen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 09:30 +0300, David Peer wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have some SunFire X4100 servers that run Debian on it.
>>>> When dbus loads hald, hald-runner forks 9 hald-addon-storage process 
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> I'm curious why that happens. We only fork a hald-addon-storage add-on
>>> if the storage device got removable media. It sounds weird that you
>>> would have 9 devices that accepts removable media on such a box.
>>>  
>>>       
>> agree!
>>     
>
> According to your lshal and lshw output you've got 1 ``Virtual CDROM'' and 8
> ``Virtual Floppy'' devices.. For which hal is correctly spawning
> hald-addon-storage processes. What kind of devices are these ? If you don't
> really need them, maybe you can just turn them off in the bios?
>
> Strange that it causes so much system load to monitor them though..
>
>   Sjoerd
>   
Yes, of course I can( and that is what I'm going to do, I don't need all 
this virtual devices ), but way it causes such load?

David