Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:39:07 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Marcus von Appen <mva@sysfault.org> Subject: Re: Periodical creation of /dev/apmX entries Message-ID: <200801080939.07720.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080107223541.GA1022@medusa.sysfault.org> References: <20080107223541.GA1022@medusa.sysfault.org>
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On Monday 07 January 2008 05:35:41 pm Marcus von Appen wrote: > Hi, > > does somebody know, why the current RELENG_7 tends to generate new > /dev/apmX entries every 45 seconds on my Dell Dimension 4600? > > After a few hours there were around 900 /dev/apm entries, ranging from > /dev/apm to dev/apm898. > > The kernel does not have device apm built in and dmesg does not reveal > anything as well. > > # uname -a > FreeBSD medusa.sysfault.org 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #6: Mon Jan 7 23:10:13 CET 2008 root@medusa.sysfault.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEDUSA i386 > > Any hints on what could cause this behaviour are really appreciated. > If you need further system details, let me know. ACPI creates /dev/apmX entries each time you open /dev/apm, so you have something that is stat()'ing or open()'ing /dev/apm every 45 seconds. -- John Baldwin
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