Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> writes:

> Am 19.06.2013 17:01, schrieb lee:
>> Look at pulseaudio, for example. It can be useful *if* you actually
>> have use for features it provides --- which I don't
>
> most do

Do you have any evidence for that?

>> It's like installing all available packages just because they exist.
>
> no

sure is

>> Why is md running?  
>> I'm not using software raid. 
>
> well, the system can not smell this
> you may have a softare-raid not involved at boot

I don't have a software raid.  Why is it kept running?

>> Why is irqbalance running?  Does it really do anything useful?  
>
> irqbalance is a daemon that evenly distributes IRQ load across
> multiple CPUs for enhanced performance.

That's what it claims, but does it really?

>> What about rtkit-daemon?  That sounds like something watching out for 
>> rootkits
>> what does it actually do, and will it warn me?  
>
> *lol*
>
> yum info rtkit
> Name        : rtkit
> Arch        : x86_64
> Version     : 0.11
> Release     : 3.fc18
> Size        : 130 k
> Repo        : installed
> Summary     : Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemon
> URL         : http://git.0pointer.de/?p=rtkit.git
> License     : GPLv3+ and BSD
> Description : RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the
>             : scheduling policy of user processes/threads to SCHED_RR (i.e. 
> realtime
>             : scheduling mode) on request. It is intended to be used as a 
> secure
>             : mechanism to allow real-time scheduling to be used by normal 
> user
>

And now you're going to claim that most users use it ...


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