Re: Ubuntu Gutsy good?

["DoctorMO" <user=57@nabble.blu.org>]

 udev is the unspecified device manager which creates /dev nodes, does 
script running and various other tasks when dealing with devices which 
have just been plugged in. it's what HAL uses as it's back end and 
it's what auto mounts drives that you plug in as well as adding 
modules as required. 

So it's pretty important, although it shouldn't be taking more than 
20-40MB of ram really. 

On 23/10/2007, Laura Conrad <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> I put Gutsy on my laptop sometime in September, and the results 
> haven't encouraged me to upgrade the desktop yet. 
> 
> I use the laptop mostly for web browsing, and on Feisty was able to 
> leave it up for weeks with Firefox getting more and more tabs, but no 
> significant performance degradation.  On Gutsy, I quite regularly find 
> that the system is paging itself to death and has become unusably 
> slow. 
> 
> This morning, "top" told me the memory hogging culprit was "udev", if 
> that enlightens anyone. 
> 
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