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Re: Ubuntu Gutsy good?



 On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:24:10PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote: 
> 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. 

For reference, udevd is running about 2MB of RAM on my Debian 
Etch desktop. 

-dsr- 

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