is avahi-daemon necessary in the build?

[foxesden]

Hi

I have noticed that in the recent (last 2 months) that the avahi-daemon seems to be using a lot of resources for a background process. on my twin core atom it is running at about 12%
constantly. Even playing music on squeezeplay all processes combined only hit 3%.

I understand the daemon is used in some apple bonjour services; is there any way the service can be configured to run less enthusiastically?

It will have an effect on power use and potentially affect music playback quality.

I have turned it off on my machine
service avahi-daemon stop

but a bit of a pain to do it each reboot.

[nunovi]

Hi

I have noticed that in the recent (last 2 months) that the avahi-daemon seems to be using a lot of resources for a background process. on my twin core atom it is running at about 12%
constantly. Even playing music on squeezeplay all processes combined only hit 3%.

I understand the daemon is used in some apple bonjour services; is there any way the service can be configured to run less enthusiastically?

It will have an effect on power use and potentially affect music playback quality.

I have turned it off on my machine
service avahi-daemon stop

but a bit of a pain to do it each reboot.

It's useful for Macs accessing the Web UI via http://vortexbox.local. Also useful for MPoD/MPaD to automatically recognise the Vortexbox.

To disable permanently, go to the command line and type chkconfig avahi-daemon off. Next reboot avahi won't start.

[foxesden]

Thanks.
I might also check what the config should be; I don't think something as basic as this should be such a resource drain