On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 20:09 -0800, Wil Reichert wrote: > I'm a Gentoo user and figured mounting /usr/portage & /var/portage > (distfiles, packages, persistent stuff normally in /usr/portage) and > /tmp moiunted as btrfs. I figured it would be a decent test & its > nothing I cann't replace readily. After about 6 hours of uptime and a > couple package merges, I checked ps aux & am getting the following: >
Btrfs has a number of thread pools per mounted filesystem. It makes sense to switch the thread pools to be more global, but for right now these threads are not unusual. Kernel threads are lightweight enough that the only major downside to these is making ps output ugly ;) -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html