On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Chris Mason <chris.ma...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 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

ps noise is fine, my only concern was that something was getting
created & not cleaned up.

Thanks,

Wil
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