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This may be perfectly normal, but I want to make sure.
I just ran htop and noticed that I have more than 30 (thats when I stopped counting) instances of /usr/bin/console-kit-daemon. Also, I have one instance of firefox, with two tabs, but it shows up 6 times in htop. Should I do something to clean this up or is it norma? This is a pretty fresh system that I am still building up to be usable so I woul d rather fix this now than after I start having other issues to deal with.
Thanks
JTS
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Those are probably threads. Enable "Hide user threads" in Setup -> Display Options and those should go away.
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I figured it was something simple like that. I just wanted to make sure I hadn't borked the system after two days work!
Thanks for putting my mind at ease!
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It bothers me that console-kit uses so many threads. It seems its something that could be done in 1 thread/process, but from what I understand it would take a kernel modification that no one seems to be motivated to make... Oh well....
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Same problem here with the console-kit...
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If you kill one of the pid of console-kit-daemon, are also closed all the console-kit-daemon items...
Perhaps those are many instances of the same process?
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I had up to 59 console-kit-daemon-things running for root ...
Uninstalled HAL and *kit - I'm happy now. Brute force rulez! ;-)
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If you kill one of the pid of console-kit-daemon, are also closed all the console-kit-daemon items...
Perhaps those are many instances of the same process?
It is a bunch of threads from one process. Console-kit spawns one thread to listen for every possible console (usually 63 of them by default).
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Nice to know, thanks, jowilkin :-)
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