Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:16:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:16:29 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([194.221.183.20]:6883 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:16:25 -0400 Message-ID: <001901c11200$7e16adc0$c20e9c3e@host1> From: "peter k." To: In-Reply-To: <000f01c111ff$73602ce0$c20e9c3e@host1> Subject: Re: 2.4.7: wtf is "ksoftirqd_CPU0" Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:15:35 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing i knew that i forgot to say something: i was using 2.4.6 before and i never saw that process with 2.4.6 or any other 2.4.x version > i just installed 2.4.7, now a new process called "ksoftirqd_CPU0" is started > automatically when booting (by the kernel obviously)? why? what does it do? > i didnt find any useful information on it in linuxdoc / linux-kernel > archives - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/