starting Fedora Server SIG

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Nov 14 22:16:56 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 17:10 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
> >
> > Also, there's this weird "running daemons are bad" mentality which I'm
> > not really sure what the right way to approach is.  But it's one that
> > I'm not sure how true it is in our current world of increasingly moving
> > functionality out of the kernel and into userspace in which case you
> > have to have something running in addition to the kernel.
> >
> > Maybe to try some examples -- irqbalance is a daemon and not in the
> > kernel anymore[1], does that make it "not useful"?  Or for another side,
> > various kernel threads are really just daemons... maybe we shouldn't run
> > them either?
> >
> 
> if you replace useful with necessary in his argument I think it ends up 
> making more sense.
> 
> If the daemon is not NECESSARY for the task it is fulfilling then why have 
> it running?

So I guess it boils down to how you define "task" then...

Dan





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