devkit-daemon annoys

Geoffrey Leach geoff at hughes.net
Mon Jun 15 13:53:23 PDT 2009


On 06/15/2009 11:03:24 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 19:20, Geoffrey Leach<geoff at hughes.net> 
> wrote:
> > I'm running Fedora 11 on a laptop. Every minute or so, devkit-
> daemon
> > fires up and runs at 100% CPU for 30 seconds, turning on the fan.
> This
> > is really annoying.
> 
> That sounds weird. Care to run:
>   udevadm monitor
> at the same time, and see if you got events that wake up the
> dk-daemon?
> 
> > So, what's with devkit-daemon? And what's the downside of turning 
> it
> > down or off?
> 
> It's the event multiplexer for DeviceKit-disks and DeviceKit-power. 
> It
> will go away pretty soon, as they are/will be converted to use udev
> directly.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kay
> 

Sigh. Restarted daemon, problem did not reoccur. I'll run udevadm 
monitor and post the results here, should the problem reoccur.

Thanks for the help.



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