Htop and processes question.
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Htop and processes question.
I am running sailtimbocca on a Dell latitude d-800 laptop. I was looking at htop after installing iceweasel to see the difference between it and chromium. Thans when I noticed that there were 28 entries for iceweasel, 17 entries for chromium, and 30 entries for terminal. I have been running linux for years and have never seen this before. Most of the processes have the same stats. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this or just my machine.
Thanks kelean.
Thanks kelean.
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Re: Htop and processes question.
It's not just you. I don't know what the browsers do with all those processes, but it happens. You can run "pstree" in a terminal to see another representation of what's happening.
Firefox has 19 processes.
(edit) and I should note that this output is from a machine running straight Debian sid, before anyone thinks this is something unique to BBQ systems.
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init-+-acpid
|-conky---5*[{conky}]
|-cron
|-cupsd
|-2*[dbus-daemon]
|-dbus-launch
|-dhclient
|-5*[getty]
|-hddtemp
|-login---zsh---startx---xinit-+-Xorg
| `-ratpoison-+-sh---stalonetray
| `-sh---firefox-bin---19*[{firefox-bin}]
|-rpc.idmapd
|-rpc.mountd
|-rpc.statd
|-rpcbind
|-rsyslogd---3*[{rsyslogd}]
|-tmux-+-zsh-+-pstree
| | `-zsh
| `-zsh
|-udevd---2*[udevd]
`-urxvtd---2*[tmux]
(edit) and I should note that this output is from a machine running straight Debian sid, before anyone thinks this is something unique to BBQ systems.
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Re: Htop and processes question.
Another sicko is consolekit, but IIRC that's (still) a consolekit-bug
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Re: Htop and processes question.
Thanks everyone. The H cleaned it up htop mb but the first time I put h not H big difference.
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Re: Htop and processes question.
Do not worry about it or do. :) It depends. Chrome/ium has a process for every damn opened tab! Would mean, 50 tabs=50 processes.
Re: Htop and processes question.
^ isn't that part of their sandboxy-security-thingy maybe?
lots of y's in that sentence.
lots of y's in that sentence.
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Re: Htop and processes question.
Yep, crash a tab, not a browser. But generally, these are the threads, not processes, shown in htop. Press H and you get the 'old' output that doesn't look frightening :) What counts is in the upper left corner.
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Re: Htop and processes question.
Machine is right but that does not prevent Chrome to use more resources than Firefox. Once it was advertised as a lightweight alternative. Ok, I stop to rant, going off-topic.
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Re: Htop and processes question.
Oh this (lightweightness of Chromium) was never point of discussion :D Anything else than elinks or xlinks is already blo....
I nearly said the bad word.
Heck, even roaster is ;)
I nearly said the bad word.
Heck, even roaster is ;)
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Re: Htop and processes question.
i've gone all stallman and just wget my webpages now,
then read through the HTML... writing directly to port 80 for POST'ing things.
bit quicker than sniffing the TCP/IP packets...
NOT. 8)
sorry am i offtopic?
then read through the HTML... writing directly to port 80 for POST'ing things.
bit quicker than sniffing the TCP/IP packets...
NOT. 8)
sorry am i offtopic?
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