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Author Topic: So....How many processes do you have running on startup and during normal usage  (Read 17,360 times)

Josh

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So, I got this idea from the irc channel ( irc://irc.efnet.org/donationcoder ), so here goes.

How many processes do you have running on A. Startup, and B. After startup (during normal usage).

A. 58
B. 65
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A. 11
B. 20-25
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A: 30
B: 37

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on the P4:
A. 60
B. 70 (at least)

on the P1:
A. 40
B. 50 (at least)

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60 upwards after startup.

mrainey

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With email and browser plus all security programs (4), i usually run around 40.
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(this is on gentoo linux)

A 48

B 82 (with gnome)   
B 62 (with fluxbox)
(includes firefox, code::blocks, a terminal, irc, etc,..)

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kimmchi, you're the man!  Are you a gamer?

I got 26 at startup, 56 normal use.

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superboyac,

i'm a minimalist, not a gamer. :)

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Personally I think memory usage is a better goal to aim for. With careful pruning of services I used to get sub 70mb for XP usage after boot. Now though I'm using XP x64 which boots into over 250mb usage but I haven't bothered to try and tune it as the difference isn't noticable anyway.
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Check the "Show processes from all users" box ;-)
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A. ~50
B. ~63

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Personally I think memory usage is a better goal to aim for. With careful pruning of services I used to get sub 70mb for XP usage after boot.

*cough*

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It's not a bug, it's an undocumented and unexplainable feature.
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Quote
*cough*

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Sweet :)

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hmm,
I have 102 in the B section, don't know how many at startup.
Time to prune...

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my user: 34
my system: 126

just for the kick of it, those are my user's processes:
/bin/sh kdeinit dcopserver klauncher
kded kxkb kaccess kwrapper
ksmserver kwin kdesktop kicker
klipper korgac kgpg gkrellm2
kwalletmanager kmix kmail gaim
knotify amarokapp xchat-2 /bin/bash
java kio_imap4 kio_imap4 konqueror
kio_file /bin/bash /opt/firefox/firefox-bin konsole
/bin/bash /bin/bash kio_pop3

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