[cobalt-security] Re: Process...

[Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Once upon a time, njd <njd76@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>  2 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kflushd
>  3 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:01 kupdate
>  4 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kpiod
>  5 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
>  6 root     -20 -20     0    0     0 SW<     0  0.0  0.0   0:00
> mdrecoveryd
> 
> any idea what these process are... I am not sure and mdrecoveryd does
> not sound good. 

These are all kernel threads.  mdrecoveryd will always be there if
software RAID is configured into the kernel - notice that it has used no
CPU seconds, so it is not running.  If software RAID was in use and
there was a crash that got it out of sync, the mdrecoveryd thread runs
in the background to resync.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.