Re: minimal system processes

[Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>]

Hello junior,

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 06:49 -0800, ext Junior wrote:
> Hi all,
> Below are the processes running on my embedded ARM system.
> Are all these really necessary?
> How do I know what is absolutely necessary? I'm trying to determine what the system will run reliably on.
> Much thanks.
> 
>   PID  Uid     VmSize Stat Command
>     1 root        268 S   init       
>     2 root            SWN [ksoftirqd/0]
>     3 root            SW< [events/0]
>     4 root            SW< [khelper]
>     5 root            SW< [kthread]
>    14 root            SW< [kblockd/0]
>    17 root            SW< [khubd]
>    52 root            SW  [pdflush]
>    53 root            SW  [pdflush]
>    54 root            SW< [kswapd0]
>    55 root            SW< [aio/0]
>   141 root            SW  [mtdblockd

This threads are almost all Kernel Threads, so they are extremely
necessary.
The only non-kernel_thred process (init), is the process that handles
the post-kernel booting.


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Best Regards,

Felipe Balbi
felipe.lima@indt.org.br

Nokia Institute of Technology - INdT
Kernel Developers Team

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