Seriously, HAL should just not poll at all. It should *definitely* not poll non-removable devices:
root 22289 0.0 0.0 22020 344 ? S Aug27 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda (ev root 22290 0.0 0.0 22020 348 ? S Aug27 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hdb (ev root 22291 0.0 0.0 22020 344 ? S Aug27 0:02 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdd (ev root 22292 0.0 0.0 22020 344 ? S Aug27 0:01 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sde (ev root 22293 0.0 0.0 22020 344 ? S Aug27 0:01 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdg (ev root 22294 0.0 0.0 22020 344 ? S Aug27 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdf (ev And while I am glad to see that this can be explicitly disabled (which is the wrong way around), I don't think I should have to allocate 22Mb of virtual memory to let me know via the process table: root 22295 0.0 0.0 22020 332 ? S Aug27 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/f Yes, HAL is going away. But maybe until then it could be a little contained and not force its fangs all over? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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