hald/haldaemon cpu usage

[John Wendel]

Konstantin Svist wrote:
> John Wendel wrote:
>> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm curious about haldaemon - for some reason, it takes up 3-5% cpu 
>>> at all times on my computer.
>>>
>>> Why would it do that?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>
>> "service haldaemon stop" works good for me.
>>
>> You could run strace and figure out what stupid thing it's doing and 
>> file a bug report.
>>
> 
> Thanks John,
> 
> I'm kind of wary of killing off daemons that might be necessary to keep 
> the system running, and I don't know exactly what this one does.
> I *could* run strate, but decided to first ask if the problem is already 
> known (which is usually very likely)
> 
> 
> 
> 

I never run haldaemon and my system works fine. You need it if you 
want to mount a USB device (or other hotplugable device).  When I need 
it, I start it, let it work and then stop it again. My computer is 
slow (PIII) so I need all the cycles for myself.

Here's all the daemons I run (this is a desktop, not a server).

messagebus      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
network         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
sshd            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Regards,

John