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linux-source-2.6.20 package

  1. Bug #81915
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 81915

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Daniel Holth (dholth) wrote : Re: [feisty] hald adds/removes same device many times a second causing high loads and extremally slow performance

I had the same problem. I am using Edgy Eft.

I got really annoyed because my disk was constantly filling up with these log messages, and having hald use 50% of my CPU all the time isn't too cool either. I don't think I was even able to log into KDE with a full disk. It's a good thing I'm a degree-bearing computer scientist and not my grandmother, or I would have had to seek professional help.

Thanks, original reporter, for this number: i82365. It was a PCMCIA driver. Since my desktop doesn't have any PCMCIA slots, it was safe to find i82356 and remove it here:

root@cardamom:/lib/modules/2.6.19.2-dwh/kernel/drivers# ls pcmcia/
i82092.ko i82365.ko pcmcia_core.ko pcmcia.ko pd6729.ko rsrc_nonstatic.ko tcic.ko yenta_socket.ko

rm -rf pcmcia/

The log messages stopped immediately.

To fix it for your machine:

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers
rm -rf pcmcia

I will be sure not to compile PCMCIA support into my next kernel.