Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Am 19.06.2013 17:01, schrieb lee: >> Look at pulseaudio, for example. It can be useful *if* you actually >> have use for features it provides --- which I don't > > most do Do you have any evidence for that? >> It's like installing all available packages just because they exist. > > no sure is >> Why is md running? >> I'm not using software raid. > > well, the system can not smell this > you may have a softare-raid not involved at boot I don't have a software raid. Why is it kept running? >> Why is irqbalance running? Does it really do anything useful? > > irqbalance is a daemon that evenly distributes IRQ load across > multiple CPUs for enhanced performance. That's what it claims, but does it really? >> What about rtkit-daemon? That sounds like something watching out for rootkits >> what does it actually do, and will it warn me? > > *lol* > > yum info rtkit > Name : rtkit > Arch : x86_64 > Version : 0.11 > Release : 3.fc18 > Size : 130 k > Repo : installed > Summary : Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemon > URL : http://git.0pointer.de/?p=rtkit.git > License : GPLv3+ and BSD > Description : RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the > : scheduling policy of user processes/threads to SCHED_RR (i.e. realtime > : scheduling mode) on request. It is intended to be used as a secure > : mechanism to allow real-time scheduling to be used by normal user > And now you're going to claim that most users use it ... -- "Object-oriented programming languages aren't completely convinced that you should be allowed to do anything with functions." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
