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On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org> wrot=
e:
> On 2017-12-10 21:31, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote:
>
>> You just don't notice udisks, it's quietly running in the background
>> doing its thing without taking either much disk space, memory, nor CPU
>> usage.
>
> I know Dr. Vald=C3=A9s will not respond but maybe someone else will, as t=
his
> is a factual question.
>
> Last time I met udisks in person, it polled all drives on the system
> every second.  Has that changed?

udisksd does not appear to poll devices. It waits for device change
events to be sent over a netlink socket from udev. udev waits for
events to be sent from the kernel.