is magicdev evil?

[Tommy McNeely]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:56:06 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 17:41, Tommy McNeely wrote:
>> [quoted text muted]
> 
> If magicdev consistently appears at the top of your top, then that's a
> bug. (Please provide information as detailed in the last mail)
> 
> What I'd expect is that it doesn't appear at all in top, except perhaps
> popping up occasionally with 1-2% cpu if the sampling gets lucky.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106437

If anyone else has this situation where magicdev eats up a lot of cpu
cycles, you should probably do the strace as well... I don't see anything
strange in my strace... it just keeps opening the cdroms (3 of them)...

Tommy



> 
> Regards,
> 						Owen