Re: lots of kernel threads

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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


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