Kernel process md

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/09/15 07:16, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 02/08/2015 02:42 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 08Feb2015 11:40, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Why do I have md running when I do not have any raid storage?
>>> root        32     2  0 09:35 ?        00:00:00 [md]
>>
>> It's just a thread, presumably idle. Probably gets started at boot rather than on demand, so if it wasn't there you wouldn't be able to make new md devices.  Just conjecture.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
> Would you say the same about the kernel thread ksmd?
> ps -ef shows it running, and using 0 time.
>
> root        25     2  0 15:58 ?        00:00:00 [ksmd]
>
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt

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