Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> 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