Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:46:28 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. |
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > 10 ? S< 0:00 [khelper] > > That one's needed to parent the call_usermodehelper() apps. I don't think > it does anything else. We used to use keventd for this but that had some > problem whcih I forget.
I think it was one of a long series of deadlocks.
Using a "keventd" for many different things sounds clever and nice, but then sucks horribly when one event triggers another event, and they depend on each other. Solution: use independent threads for the events.
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