High load by HAL on Sun X4200

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 10:03 -0600, Brodie, Kent wrote:
> Weird- my ORIGINAL email never made it to the list.   Here it is---  a
> very very weird HIGH LOAD problem caused by hal---   resolved a day or
> so later with .fdi file(s) that exclude the virtual devices.

This AFAIK was discussed in September

 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-September/006093.html
 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-September/006095.html
 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-September/006099.html

and deemed to be a problem with virtual devices and/or Linux SCSI
midlayer + usb-storage drivers. Disabling the virtual devices in the
BIOS seemed to fix the problem too.

     David