Seeing many xfs threads in RHEL6 even no xfs filesystem is mounted.
Issue
- Seeing many xfs-related threads in system.
# ps aux | grep xfs
root 2676 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:28 0:00 [xfs_mru_cache]
root 2677 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:28 0:00 [xfslogd/0]
root 2678 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:28 0:00 [xfsdatad/0]
root 2679 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:28 0:00 [xfsconvertd/0]
root 2680 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:28 0:00 [xfsalloc/0]
root 2681 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:28 0:00 [xfseofblocks/0]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Scalable Filesystem
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