Re: Daemon

["Marek L. Kozak" <marko@terabajt.pl>]

Y2KNET wrote:
> 
> After few days, I installed Debian 2.2.18, I saw  strange
> deamons and looks some one hacked the kernel. Following are the
> daemons:
> 
> root         1  0.0  0.2  1020  460  ?        S    Apr19   0:10 init [2]
> 
> root         2  0.0  0.0     0     0     ?        SW   Apr19   0:00
> [kflushd]
> root         3  0.0  0.0     0     0     ?        SW   Apr19   0:00
> [kupdate]
> root         4  0.0  0.0     0     0     ?        SW   Apr19   0:00
> [kpiod]
> root         5  0.0  0.0     0     0     ?        SW   Apr19   0:00
> [kswapd]
> root         6  0.0  0.0     0     0     ?        SW   Apr19   0:00
> [i2oevtd]
> root         7  0.0  0.0     0     0     ?        SW   Apr19   0:00
> [i2oblock]
> 
> Have some one noticed kpiod, kswapd, i2oevtd, or i2oblock
> Are these valid daemons, I have never seen these before.
Daemons starting with a letter 'k' are kernel deamons. You use
distribution kernel which was compiled with many stuff you don't need.
i2* daemons - I20 support compiled in.
kpiod - io subsytem. I'm not sure exactly what is it for. None of my
servers use it, but I have it on boxes with other stuff like sound, X
etc.
kswapd is for swapping memory do disk.
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Regards,
Marek L. Kozak