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v43

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Registered: 2011-02-03

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[solved] about 90 running processes. is it normal??

it's all in the title..
i'm running lxde, and got a few things installed. as i kept the number of programs running at startup at the bare minimum, i was appalled to see how many processes are running in background (as a windows user).

besides.. i noticed the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch are running. do i need them both??

Last edited by v43 (2011-02-07 00:50:27)

TigTex

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Re: [solved] about 90 running processes. is it normal??

are you using htop to read that? Press shift+H. You are seeing threads instead of process (i think). Lxde is pretty lightweight you shouldn't be above 30 processes.

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v43

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Re: [solved] about 90 running processes. is it normal??

it's the conky function "processes". it shows all running and idle processes. there are a "running_threads" and "running_processes" functions too.
atm it shows:

95 processes
1 running
8 threads running

while

$ ps | wc -l
4

Last edited by v43 (2011-02-07 00:00:00)

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Re: [solved] about 90 running processes. is it normal??

Does this help?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80101

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v43

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Registered: 2011-02-03

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Re: [solved] about 90 running processes. is it normal??

indeed!

i've now installed htop. it says: 55 processes, 83 threads, 1 running. there's a bunch of console-kit-daemon instances.
so it's normal.. good to know

thank you guys