[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Sat Dec 9 11:51:29 MST 2006


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David Braley wrote:
> By the way, what is the process or
> command in "Top" called events/0 ? It shows up in the very far right
> column. Normally it has zero cpu usage whenever I run the Top program.
> But when X starts with the rt2500 loaded, it climbs to the sky, and
> beyond! Sort of like a super hero ;-)

I believe it's a thread internal to the kernel. It most likely
implements high-level interrupt service routines, timer processing, or
other delayed high priority tasks internal to the kernel.

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