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pilot

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Registered: 2011-02-23

Posts: 8

how many process for each application?

Hello everybody!

a quick question from a new user:
willing to know how much memory archbang uses I installed htop

htop shows:

15 firefox tasks --> I have one instance running with two tabs??
2 lxterminal --> I have only one opened running htop
65 console-kit-daemon --nodaemon --> this one ???

It is that info normal ?

thanks

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: how many process for each application?

You're confusing threads with processes. Yes, this is all normal.

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pilot

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Registered: 2011-02-23

Posts: 8

Re: how many process for each application?

then If I want to kill an app I kill any of the ones listed and that is it?

thanks

Last edited by pilot (2011-04-08 01:24:31)

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: how many process for each application?

You can configure htop to hide threads; this should result in just the list of processes.

pilot

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Registered: 2011-02-23

Posts: 8

Re: how many process for each application?

thanks

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: how many process for each application?

"65 console-kit-daemon" - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 82#p561382

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).