NAME pmsd - Periodically Manic System Daemon. Manages the bizzare and sometimes unexplainable behavior exhibited by computers. Most of the unusual and quirky behavior associated with misbehaving computers can be attri- buted to pmsd. This is usually not the case. With no flags, pmsd runs with the default -m option, and any others it feels like using.
Files randomly grow in size, filling up filesys- tems and causing quotas to be exceeded.
System becomes hungry, eating magnetic tapes, CD-ROM discs, floppies, and anything else a hapless user loads into a removable media drive. System will pause for a random period of time. It is important to leave the system alone during this time. This is to be avoided. Process priorities and nice values are altered randomly.