forked-daapd resource usage

[redw0001]

Can anybody explain what forked -daapd is please, on my B3 seems to be a bit busy. I had been listening to radio through my squeezebox just prior to this top and ripping some CDs to FLACs. I found DAAP streaming in services but not sure of its significance. If it is nothing to do with squeezeserver(radio and flac playing), nfs, smb is it ok to get rid of it?

Last login: Tue Jan 15 16:35:19 2013 from 192.168.1.109
robin@petra:~$ top
top - 10:15:28 up 8 days, 16:34, 1 user, load average: 1.57, 1.65, 1.75
Tasks: 130 total, 1 running, 129 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 60.9%us, 38.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515032k total, 503540k used, 11492k free, 3768k buffers
Swap: 1048572k total, 71148k used, 977424k free, 297412k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1225 daapd 20 0 53220 3260 972 S 94.5 0.6 2266:46 forked-daapd
19335 nobody 20 0 17640 3024 2448 S 2.9 0.6 1:40.73 smbd
1506 squeezeb 20 0 111m 59m 2724 S 1.0 11.9 190:31.97 squeezeboxserve
19404 robin 20 0 2740 1108 824 R 0.7 0.2 0:26.34 top
1198 root 20 0 47540 720 608 S 0.3 0.1 2:21.50 ftd
1379 mysql 20 0 137m 11m 1952 S 0.3 2.3 22:51.09 mysqld

[DanielM]

forked-daapd is Firefly, the server streaming music over daap. So unless you have a Soundbridge for listening to music I guess you can simply disable it.

/Daniel