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Eduren

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 5

Two instances of X

I dont think that this is normal but "ps -e | grep X" gives me this output

2355 tty7     00:21:17 X
2366 tty7     00:00:00 X

When i open up system activity in KDE, it shows 2 "X" processes, both with the same amount of memory usage but only one uses the cpu.

Is this normal, and if not, can I fix it to possibly free some memory

vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: Two instances of X

I only have one X process, but I'm not using kde. You could just go the experimental way and kill the process that doesn't use any cpu time, and see what happens: I'm not so sure that you would save much memory, even if your X11 session didn't end when you send the kill command (which it probably will, loosing all of your precious work).

Also consider that if the process isn't doing anything with its allocated memory, that memory gets swapped out, so you probably won't gain anything from getting rid of, or explaining the X process with pid 2366.

Of course, someone more knowledgeable could probably explain why you have 2 processes in the first place (maybe a mailing list somewhere...).

Eduren

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 5

Re: Two instances of X

Ok I checked and one had a parent process of "kde" and the other "X". So i killed the one with parent "X". No consequences that are apparent. So how do i keep it gone?

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Re: Two instances of X

I'm running KDEmod 3.5.

2510 tty7     00:02:52 X