hald/haldaemon cpu usage

[Konstantin Svist]

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)