linux-kernel - Re: more PID churn during boot?

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Message-Id: <20120110121459.6b358afe6052810e91dfdd47@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:14:59 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: more PID churn during boot?

[Just adding lkml to the recipients]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:32:56 -0800 Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:
>
> Just noticed that linux-next kernels from late 2011 threw out this
> message during boot:
> 
> udevd (124): /proc/124/oom_adj is deprecated, please use
> /proc/124/oom_score_adj instead.
> 
> while the 2012 editions print:
> 
> udevd (341): /proc/341/oom_adj is deprecated, please use
> /proc/341/oom_score_adj instead.
> 
> 
> So we are somehow burning through over 200 more PIDs just booting the
> system than
> we were last month.  Anyone know why?
> 
> [This is on an ia64 running a SLES 11-SP1 user space - hence the old
> udevd binary]
> 
> -Tony

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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