How many processes are you running?

[Dr Small]

How many processes are you currently running on your system? To find out how many you are running, just run this simple command to output the number:

ps aux | wc -l


Please list your DE/WM and a few apps you have running. Let's see who has the lowest! :)

Mine is currently:

[drsmall@darkghost ~]$ ps aux | wc -l
56
I am running Openbox, Conky, Pypanel and Feh :)


Dr Small

[shen-an-doah]

143

I'm using just standard GNOME. I've got Firefox and amsn actually open, along with Deluge, Rhythmbox, Miro, Yarssr, Evolution and Pidgin sat in my system tray...

[tuxxy]

112

Firefox
aMSN
Terminal

[stmiller]

140

holy crap, I need to kill some processes...

Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4.1

[RiceMonster]

96

Openbox, Stalonetray, Conky, Emesene, Firefox, and Audacious.

[myusername]

81 openbox/gnome firefox conky mintmenu gnome panel

[jordanmthomas]

I'll bite.

69

Running openbox, bmpanel, conky, mpd, a couple of terminals and firefox (this is basically everything I actually see)

(By the way, this number was only 28 before firefox got launched. :| )

[OutOfReach]

111

Rhythmbox, Emesene, Firefox, Thunderbird
Oh yeah, currently using GNOME.

[Dharmachakra]

I have 132 processes while running Update Manager and Firefox after a brand new Ubuntu install. Just coming back from a brief journey to OpenSUSE as my main OS.

[LookTJ]

84.

Arch, GNOME/Openbox, irssi, pidgin, and firefox.

[shen-an-doah]

Woo! I'm winning!

Suddenly I'm not so surprised that my laptop overheats a lot...

[Ozor Mox]

124. Got Pidgin, Rhythmbox, gedit, Firefox, OpenOffice Calc and terminal open at the moment.

[Hells_Dark]

196..
Firefox, rtorrent, ncmpc, irssi, pidgin, sonata, some nautilus, gedit..

[shen-an-doah]

196..
Firefox, rtorrent, ncmpc, irssi, pidgin, sonata, some nautilus, gedit..

Obviously I spoke too soon O_O

[fluteflute]

158: gnome, firefox, emesene, pidgin, checkgmail, grnotify

[Bachstelze]

133

[Heinzelotto]

processes running: 3
processes total: 130

[terry_gardener]

140

gnome.
skype
amarok
irkick
firefox with 2 tabs open.

[billgoldberg]

rw@legend:~$ ps aux | wc -l
129


Mem: 775032k total, 764080k used, 10952k free, 54280k buffers
Swap: 2265124k total, 224280k used, 2040844k free, 317768k cached


Active now: firefox, gnome terminal, mediatomb server, ssh-server, banshee, conky, nautilus.

Using ubuntu 8.04 with fluxbox and gtk-theme.

[arsenic23]

152
I have opera and a few terminal windows open.

Oh, yeah, gnome and emerald.

[diffuze]

120

Gnome, Compiz-Fusion, Rainlendar2, AWN, Pidgin, Firefox3, gnome-terminal plus a few applets on the top panel.

[dizee]

112 with Opera and Xfce-terminal open on a standard Xubuntu Xfce desktop

[RATM_Owns]

180

I'm close to the top.

[picpak]

98

Firefox open with 2 tabs, Amarok and gnome-terminal.

[Methuselah]

156

[overdrank]

overdrank-desktop:~$ ps aux | wc -l
122

[kagashe]

~$ ps aux | wc -l
46

Debian Lenny, IceWM, Iceweasel browser, ps aux command on xterm, tty2 to tty6 commented (#) on /etc/inittab.

~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 313 153 159 0 6 73
-/+ buffers/cache: 73 239
Swap: 996 0 996

kagashe

[OldTimeTech]

113
standard gnome on Hardy with firefox running

[Nepherte]

128

Emesene, Firefox, Thunderbird, Exaile and the terminal (Gnome as DE).

[markp1989]

mark@markspc:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2014 254 1760 0 3 149
-/+ buffers/cache: 101 1912
Swap: 0 0 0
mark@markspc:~$ ps aux | wc -l
63
mark@markspc:~$

Compiz/emerald, as wm....no gnome
fbpanel
amsn
firefox
uxterm





any one know of anything i can remove?


mark@markspc:~$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 4020 888 ? Ss 20:19 0:00 /sbin/init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [migration/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [events/0]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [khelper]
root 39 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [kacpid]
root 43 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root 112 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [kseriod]
root 153 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:19 0:00 [pdflush]
root 154 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:19 0:00 [pdflush]
root 155 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 198 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [aio/0]
root 1414 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [ata/0]
root 1418 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [ata_aux]
root 1421 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root 1427 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [khubd]
root 1764 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 1766 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root 2306 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root 2308 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
root 3067 0.0 0.0 17136 1248 ? S<s 20:19 0:00 /sbin/udevd --d
dhcp 4738 0.0 0.0 15108 764 ? S<s 20:19 0:00 dhclient3 -e IF
daemon 4781 0.0 0.0 8084 536 ? S<s 20:19 0:00 /sbin/portmap
statd 4870 0.0 0.0 10208 772 ? S<s 20:19 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
root 4883 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:19 0:00 [rpciod/0]
root 4896 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:19 0:00 [lockd]
root 18764 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:23 0:00 [kjournald]
root 19256 0.0 0.0 3864 592 tty4 Ss+ 20:23 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 19257 0.0 0.0 3864 592 tty5 Ss+ 20:23 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 19262 0.0 0.0 3864 596 tty2 Ss+ 20:23 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 19264 0.0 0.0 3864 596 tty3 Ss+ 20:23 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 19267 0.0 0.0 3864 596 tty6 Ss+ 20:23 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 19479 0.0 0.0 12284 860 ? Ss 20:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid
106 19518 0.0 0.0 21320 1036 ? Ss 20:23 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-d
root 19552 0.0 0.1 44336 2100 ? Ss 20:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/Netwo
root 19568 0.0 0.0 28356 1276 ? Ss 20:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/Netwo
avahi 19619 0.0 0.0 29580 1468 ? Ss 20:23 0:00 avahi-daemon: r
avahi 19620 0.0 0.0 29580 504 ? Ss 20:23 0:00 avahi-daemon: c
root 19760 0.0 0.0 6272 808 ? Ss 20:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/dhcdb
110 19778 0.0 0.1 39388 3816 ? Ss 20:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root 19782 0.0 0.1 41092 2532 ? Ssl 20:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/conso
root 19847 0.0 0.0 22048 1276 ? S 20:23 0:00 hald-runner
110 19892 0.0 0.0 16672 992 ? S 20:23 0:00 hald-addon-acpi
root 19896 0.0 0.0 24156 1288 ? S 20:23 0:00 hald-addon-inpu
root 19924 0.0 0.0 24156 1280 ? S 20:23 0:00 hald-addon-stor
root 19981 0.0 0.0 116176 1912 ? Ss 20:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root 19983 0.0 0.1 126856 3328 ? S 20:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root 19995 3.4 1.4 98700 30072 tty7 RLs+ 20:23 0:16 /usr/bin/X :0 -
mark 20050 0.0 0.0 10692 1576 ? Ss 20:24 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/
mark 20144 0.0 0.0 33600 628 ? Ss 20:24 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-ag
mark 20145 0.0 0.0 10792 1748 ? S 20:24 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bi
mark 20146 0.3 0.6 135508 13096 ? S 20:24 0:01 emerald
mark 20147 0.4 0.8 168072 17960 ? S 20:24 0:01 fbpanel
mark 20194 3.3 1.4 229708 28944 ? SL 20:24 0:15 /usr/bin/compiz
root 20203 0.0 0.0 3864 592 tty1 Ss+ 20:24 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
mark 20208 3.2 3.7 471356 77092 ? Sl 20:24 0:14 /usr/lib/firefo
mark 20210 0.0 0.1 42052 4084 ? S 20:24 0:00 /usr/lib/libgco
mark 20293 2.0 0.1 60328 3792 ? Rs 20:31 0:00 xterm
mark 20294 0.0 0.1 19392 2264 pts/0 Rs 20:31 0:00 bash
mark 20295 0.0 0.0 15064 1092 pts/0 R+ 20:31 0:00 ps aux

[spupy]

79
10 are from hald only
6 from dbus
3 conkies
:)

[jordanmthomas]

mark@markspc:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2014 254 1760 0 3 149
-/+ buffers/cache: 101 1912
Swap: 0 0 0
mark@markspc:~$ ps aux | wc -l
63
mark@markspc:~$

Compiz/emerald, as wm....no gnome
fbpanel
amsn
firefox
uxterm





any one know of anything i can remove?


Probably don't need avahi-daemon
You could probably get rid of a few of your terminals (comment them out in /etc/inittab)
I don't know if you need / want hal and networkmanager (I don't use either)

Honestly, though, none of these are total resource-hogging monsters anyway.

[SuperSonic4]

147

aMSN and 4 conversations
Konsole
Amarok
Firefox 2

[tjasko12]

taylor@taylor-laptop:~$ ps aux | wc -l
151

Apparently too much. :P

That's with Wicid, Pidgin, 3 im windoows, virtual box, my email...

Didn't think I had that many... haha

[markp1989]

Probably don't need avahi-daemon
You could probably get rid of a few of your terminals (comment them out in /etc/inittab)
I don't know if you need / want hal and networkmanager (I don't use either)

Honestly, though, none of these are total resource-hogging monsters anyway.

when i stopped hal in sysv-rc-conf, couldnt get an internet connection

[jordanmthomas]

when i stopped hal in sysv-rc-conf, couldnt get an internet connection

That's probably because you're using networkmanager to get the connection.
Like I said, though, it's not exactly that taxing to keep it anyway.

[King_Critter]

117. The only "visible" programs I'm runing are Firefox, Pidgin, Yakuake, and GKrellM. I use Gnome/Metacity.

[K.Mandla]

41.

http://xs129.xs.to/xs129/08306/ps-aux320.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs129&d=08306&f=ps-aux320.jpg)

That's with Deluge, Firefox and Sylpheed running in Openbox on Crux, and the machine has been on all night.

[Joeb454]

128 apparently...

that's with Firefox, Xchat, gnome-terminal & emesene currently running by me

[kagashe]

~$ ps aux | wc -l
46

Debian Lenny, IceWM, Iceweasel browser, ps aux command on xterm, tty2 to tty6 commented (#) on /etc/inittab.

~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 313 153 159 0 6 73
-/+ buffers/cache: 73 239
Swap: 996 0 996

kagasheK Mandla has 41. The above was on Debian the following is on Ubuntu Hardy Cli, LXDE Desktop, Firefox 3.0, gnome-terminal and tty2 to tty6 stopped.
ps aux | wc -l
59

$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 312 268 43 0 8 148
-/+ buffers/cache: 111 201
Swap: 0 0 0

I am surprised to find Swap off .

kagashe

[chris4585]

On my desktop running hardy heron 135

On my laptop running SliTaz (just after boot) 63

[Oldsoldier2003]

122- but tonight i'm being lazy

[jordanmthomas]

Haha

[tdrusk]

78.
Fluxbox, Firefox, Pidgin, Checkgmail mainly

[cardinals_fan]

86.

I'm running Xfce, Firefox (Kazehakase is broken on Arch at the moment), RealPlayer, and a terminal on Arch Linux.

[dizee]

Haha

:shock:

[Dr Small]

Haha
wow. Amazing.

[vikrant82]

143 with skype, pidgin firefox alarm-clock on intrepid

[markp1989]

mark@eee:~$ ps aux | wc -l
58

[markp1989]

on my amilo pro v2030

mark@amiloprov2030:~$ ps aux | wc -l
74
mark@amiloprov2030:~$

running: UXterm, firefox, thunar, mousepad, gnome-power-manager, nm-applet, fbpanel, openbox

here are a list of the running processes

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 2844 1688 ? Ss 17:07 0:01 /sbin/init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [migration/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [events/0]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [khelper]
root 41 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 44 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [kacpid]
root 45 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root 124 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [kseriod]
root 158 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:07 0:00 [pdflush]
root 159 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:07 0:00 [pdflush]
root 160 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 201 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [aio/0]
root 1456 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [khpsbpkt]
root 1478 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [ata/0]
root 1484 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [ata_aux]
root 1487 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root 1494 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [khubd]
root 1520 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [knodemgrd_0]
root 1926 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 1931 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root 2299 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root 2301 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
root 2752 0.0 0.0 2280 880 ? S<s 17:07 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root 2989 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [pccardd]
root 3262 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [kgameportd]
root 3299 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [kpsmoused]
root 4839 0.0 0.0 1716 508 tty4 Ss+ 17:07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root 4840 0.0 0.0 1716 504 tty5 Ss+ 17:07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root 4846 0.0 0.0 1716 508 tty2 Ss+ 17:07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
root 4849 0.0 0.0 1716 512 tty3 Ss+ 17:07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
root 4852 0.0 0.0 1716 508 tty6 Ss+ 17:07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
root 5001 0.0 0.0 1928 812 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket
105 5048 0.0 0.1 2692 1064 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
root 5062 0.0 0.2 29284 2232 ? Ssl 17:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid
root 5074 0.0 0.1 3536 1308 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManagerDispatcher --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManagerDispatcher.pid
root 5139 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:01 [ntos_wq]
root 5140 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [ndis_wq]
root 5142 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:07 0:00 [wrapndis_wq]
root 5215 0.0 0.0 2020 904 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/dhcdbd --system
107 5231 0.0 0.3 5504 3520 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root 5234 0.0 0.2 7884 2384 ? Ssl 17:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
root 5296 0.0 0.1 3352 1152 ? S 17:07 0:00 hald-runner
root 5321 0.0 0.1 3416 1148 ? S 17:07 0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event4
107 5330 0.0 0.0 2204 904 ? S 17:07 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
root 5356 0.0 0.1 3420 1140 ? S 17:07 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
root 5405 0.0 0.1 14064 1592 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root 5406 0.0 0.3 14496 2948 ? S 17:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root 5418 1.7 2.7 34264 26684 tty7 Ss+ 17:07 0:24 /usr/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
mark 5477 0.0 0.8 14256 8572 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 /usr/bin/openbox
mark 5554 0.0 0.0 4480 532 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent x-window-manager
mark 5563 0.0 0.0 2564 904 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session
mark 5564 0.0 0.0 3008 636 ? S 17:07 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
mark 5567 0.1 1.1 20800 10688 ? S 17:07 0:01 fbpanel
mark 5568 0.1 0.3 10316 3324 ? S 17:07 0:01 conky
mark 5569 0.0 1.0 23344 10140 ? S 17:07 0:00 nm-applet
mark 5573 0.0 0.2 5412 2424 ? S 17:07 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 13
mark 5574 0.0 0.8 24376 8116 ? Ss 17:07 0:00 gnome-power-manager
root 5610 0.0 0.0 1716 508 tty1 Ss+ 17:07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
mark 5634 0.0 0.2 14344 2632 ? SL 17:07 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --foreground --components=keyring
root 5647 0.0 0.1 3880 1508 ? S 17:07 0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global
dhcp 5657 0.0 0.1 2440 1176 ? S 17:07 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.wlan0.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid -q -e dhc_dbus=31 -d wlan0
mark 5766 0.1 2.2 46612 21936 ? Sl 17:11 0:01 pidgin
mark 5777 0.0 0.3 10148 3244 ? S 17:23 0:00 xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8
mark 5782 0.0 0.2 5456 2840 pts/0 Rs 17:23 0:00 bash
mark 5799 7.8 5.3 129584 51436 ? Sl 17:23 0:34 /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox
mark 5876 0.0 0.1 2644 1004 pts/0 R+ 17:30 0:00 ps aux

[markp1989]

mark@amiloprov2030:~$ ps aux | wc -l
58
mark@amiloprov2030:~$

here are a list of my processes, trying to cut it down, but i dont know what else i can remove

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 2.5 0.1 2044 984 ? Ss 20:02 0:01 /sbin/init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [migration/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [events/0]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [khelper]
root 41 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 44 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [kacpid]
root 45 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root 124 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [kseriod]
root 158 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:02 0:00 [pdflush]
root 159 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 20:02 0:00 [pdflush]
root 160 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 201 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [aio/0]
root 1362 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [khpsbpkt]
root 1375 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root 1382 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [khubd]
root 1389 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [ata/0]
root 1397 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [ata_aux]
root 1415 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [knodemgrd_0]
root 1816 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 1819 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root 2133 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root 2137 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
root 2452 0.9 0.0 2224 696 ? S<s 20:02 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root 2630 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [pccardd]
root 2722 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [kgameportd]
root 2802 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [kpsmoused]
root 3972 0.0 0.0 1716 508 tty2 Ss+ 20:02 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
root 4136 0.0 0.0 1928 812 ? Ss 20:02 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket
105 4159 0.0 0.0 2564 940 ? Ss 20:02 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
root 4221 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? R< 20:02 0:00 [ntos_wq]
root 4222 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [ndis_wq]
root 4224 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 20:02 0:00 [wrapndis_wq]
root 4270 0.5 0.4 16416 4784 ? S 20:02 0:00 /usr/bin/python /opt/wicd/daemon.py
root 4283 0.0 0.1 2568 1196 tty1 Ss 20:02 0:00 login -f
mark 4284 0.4 0.2 5432 2640 tty1 S+ 20:02 0:00 -bash
mark 4302 0.0 0.1 4288 1512 tty1 S+ 20:02 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/startx
mark 4319 0.0 0.0 2784 792 tty1 S+ 20:02 0:00 xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc -auth /tmp/serverauth.EDBVVU4309
root 4320 2.5 1.2 19052 11892 tty3 Ss+ 20:02 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp
root 4371 0.0 0.0 3880 724 ? Ss 20:02 0:00 wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c encryption/configurations/0013462117ed -D wext
dhcp 4400 0.0 0.0 2440 548 ? Ss 20:02 0:00 dhclient wlan0
mark 4401 0.0 0.1 3508 1040 tty1 S 20:02 0:00 /usr/bin/ck-launch-session x-window-manager
mark 4421 0.0 0.0 4480 532 ? Ss 20:02 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/ck-launch-session x-window-manager
root 4424 0.0 0.2 7840 2264 ? Ssl 20:02 0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
mark 4488 0.2 0.8 14000 8320 tty1 S 20:02 0:00 /usr/bin/openbox
mark 4497 0.0 0.0 3008 640 tty1 S 20:02 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
mark 4498 0.0 0.0 2564 504 ? Ss 20:02 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
mark 4501 0.7 1.0 20160 10424 tty1 S 20:02 0:00 fbpanel
mark 4502 0.1 0.3 10316 3324 tty1 S 20:02 0:00 conky
mark 4505 0.6 1.2 22200 12452 tty1 S 20:02 0:00 /usr/bin/python /opt/wicd/tray.py
mark 4522 0.3 0.3 10148 3232 tty1 S 20:02 0:00 xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8
mark 4539 0.7 0.2 5424 2808 pts/0 Rs 20:02 0:00 bash
root 4623 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:03 0:00 [sh] <defunct>
mark 4635 0.0 0.1 2644 1004 pts/0 R+ 20:03 0:00 ps aux

[markp1989]

mark@markspc:~/Desktop$ ps aux | wc -l
50

os: hardy 64bit

wm: compiz , stand alone

apps: emesene, firefox. conky, fbpanel, uxterm

[earthpigg]

163

i dunno if that means i win or i lose... lol.

pidgin, rhythmbox, compiz or whatever, firefox, AWN (<-- thats the big one... includes like 10 processes called "python" - whatever the hell that is.)

uptime 31 days and change. (i ctrl-alt-backspace once a week or so)

947 megs out of 4 gigs in use.

[god0fgod]

143

[Dr Small]

[drsmall@darkghost ~]$ ps aux | wc -l
65


drsmall@mycroft:~$ ps aux | wc -l
105

[markp1989]

on my torrentslave running 4 torrents/nfs/mpd/ftp

mark@torrentslave:~$ ps aux | wc -l
90

[magnus0]

119

Gnome - Firefox, terminal, banshee, emesene are open

[-grubby]

On arch it was somewhere around 60 or 70. On Ubuntu, it's 139.

My DE/WM: Wmii
Current apps: Opera, Konversation, mrxvt, Pidgin, Gajim, Firefox

[Dharmachakra]

100 flat. Arch, updated as of today, with Gnome. Terminal, Firefox, Exaile, and Compiz are running. This is the "bloat" desktop though, I also run OpenBox which averages around 80 or so.

[bruce89]

bruce@Scooby-Dum:~$ ps aux | wc -l
125
bruce@Scooby-Dum:~$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 3056 1884 ? Ss Dec02 0:01 /sbin/init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [migration/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [events/0]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [khelper]
root 51 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kintegrityd/0]
root 54 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 57 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:01 [kacpid]
root 58 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:01 [kacpi_notify]
root 141 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [cqueue]
root 145 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kseriod]
root 190 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Dec02 0:00 [pdflush]
root 191 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Dec02 0:00 [pdflush]
root 192 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 234 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [aio/0]
root 1167 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root 1168 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [khubd]
root 1206 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [khpsbpkt]
root 1215 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:06 [ata/0]
root 1219 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [ata_aux]
root 1972 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [knodemgrd_0]
root 1987 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 1988 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:12 [scsi_eh_1]
root 2119 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:01 [kjournald]
root 2285 0.0 0.0 2512 1000 ? S<s Dec02 0:00 /sbin/udevd --d
root 2510 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kmmcd]
root 2652 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [iwl3945/0]
root 2703 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:05 [iwl3945]
root 2958 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kpsmoused]
root 4117 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kjournald]
root 4357 0.0 0.0 1780 536 tty4 Ss+ Dec02 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 4358 0.0 0.0 1780 536 tty5 Ss+ Dec02 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 4361 0.0 0.0 1780 540 tty2 Ss+ Dec02 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 4362 0.0 0.0 1780 540 tty3 Ss+ Dec02 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 4363 0.0 0.0 1780 536 tty6 Ss+ Dec02 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 4543 0.0 0.1 2440 1388 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid
root 4595 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:04 [kondemand/0]
syslog 4667 0.0 0.0 2012 708 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /sbin/syslogd -
root 4718 0.0 0.0 1940 544 ? S Dec02 0:00 /bin/dd bs 1 if
klog 4720 0.0 0.2 3640 2384 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /sbin/klogd -P
107 4743 0.0 0.1 2988 1276 ? Ss Dec02 0:11 /bin/dbus-daemo
avahi 4765 0.0 0.1 2888 1472 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 avahi-daemon: r
avahi 4766 0.0 0.0 2888 496 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 avahi-daemon: c
boinc 4803 0.4 0.6 11232 6460 ? S Dec02 2:17 /usr/bin/boinc
root 4851 0.0 0.2 6536 2684 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd
110 4929 0.0 0.4 6440 4360 ? Ss Dec02 0:20 /usr/sbin/hald
root 4932 0.0 0.2 17412 2588 ? Ssl Dec02 0:00 /usr/sbin/conso
root 4933 0.0 0.1 3364 1120 ? S Dec02 0:04 hald-runner
root 5013 0.0 0.2 5208 2092 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/ha
root 5022 0.0 0.1 3436 1084 ? S Dec02 0:00 hald-addon-inpu
root 5024 0.0 0.1 3448 1040 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/ha
110 5026 0.0 0.0 2296 944 ? S Dec02 0:00 hald-addon-acpi
root 5054 0.0 0.1 3440 1064 ? S Dec02 0:13 hald-addon-stor
root 5091 0.0 0.2 14760 2688 ? Ssl Dec02 0:09 /usr/sbin/Netwo
root 5105 0.0 0.1 4240 1948 ? S Dec02 0:00 /sbin/wpa_suppl
root 5109 0.0 0.2 6776 2972 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/sbin/nm-sy
root 5130 0.0 0.1 14272 1792 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root 5133 0.0 0.3 17144 3836 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root 5136 1.7 3.8 51792 39036 tty7 Ss+ Dec02 8:05 /usr/X11R6/bin/
root 5153 0.0 0.1 4336 1148 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /usr/bin/system
daemon 5208 0.0 0.0 2068 452 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root 5236 0.0 0.0 3412 1024 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 5291 0.0 0.0 1780 536 tty1 Ss+ Dec02 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 5384 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [ecryptfs-kthr]
bruce 5411 0.0 0.2 32256 2208 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-
bruce 5422 0.0 0.5 24964 5824 ? Ssl Dec02 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-
bruce 5501 0.0 0.0 3124 676 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-l
bruce 5502 0.0 0.1 3164 1396 ? Ss Dec02 0:01 //bin/dbus-daem
bruce 5505 0.9 0.4 27668 4364 ? Ssl Dec02 4:25 /usr/bin/pulsea
bruce 5508 0.0 0.2 7528 2548 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/pulsea
bruce 5510 0.0 0.4 7860 4888 ? S Dec02 0:03 /usr/lib/libgco
bruce 5516 0.0 0.5 17676 6088 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /usr/bin/seahor
bruce 5519 0.0 0.2 5696 2312 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
bruce 5525 0.0 0.3 13952 3676 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-
bruce 5530 0.0 1.7 51584 17644 ? Ssl Dec02 0:06 /usr/lib/gnome-
bruce 5531 0.3 1.3 22820 14004 ? S Dec02 1:45 metacity
bruce 5536 0.1 2.6 53136 27024 ? S Dec02 0:39 gnome-panel
bruce 5538 0.1 3.6 90740 37348 ? S Dec02 0:28 nautilus --no-d
bruce 5540 0.0 0.3 41660 3556 ? Ssl Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/bonobo
bruce 5561 0.0 0.2 6092 2984 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
bruce 5565 0.0 0.2 5704 2236 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
bruce 5571 0.0 0.6 22416 7148 ? Ss Dec02 0:23 gnome-screensav
bruce 5573 0.0 0.2 5564 2232 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
bruce 5576 0.0 0.2 31424 2816 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
bruce 5578 0.0 0.9 25740 10232 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-
bruce 5589 0.0 1.3 29224 14064 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/fast-u
bruce 5592 0.0 1.6 49076 16816 ? Sl Dec02 0:01 /usr/lib/gnome-
bruce 5605 0.0 1.0 65404 10900 ? Sl Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/evolut
bruce 5607 0.0 1.4 29896 14808 ? S Dec02 0:01 update-notifier
bruce 5608 0.0 1.3 25620 13392 ? S Dec02 0:00 python /usr/sha
bruce 5609 0.0 1.6 32320 17088 ? S Dec02 0:04 nm-applet --sm-
bruce 5613 0.5 2.1 39320 21764 ? S Dec02 2:38 empathy
bruce 5618 0.0 1.9 128176 19648 ? Ssl Dec02 0:04 gnome-power-man
bruce 5656 0.0 0.9 71812 9504 ? Sl Dec02 0:01 /usr/lib/evolut
bruce 5728 0.0 1.4 27664 14704 ? S Dec02 0:04 /usr/lib/notifi
bruce 6087 0.0 0.4 18596 4864 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/g
root 14235 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [migration/1]
root 14236 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 14237 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [watchdog/1]
root 14238 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kondemand/1]
root 14239 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [iwl3945/1]
root 14240 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [ata/1]
root 14241 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [aio/1]
root 14242 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kblockd/1]
root 14243 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [kintegrityd/1]
root 14244 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Dec02 0:00 [events/1]
root 14463 0.0 0.0 2252 948 ? S Dec02 0:00 /sbin/dhclient
ntp 14629 0.0 0.1 4268 1260 ? Ss Dec02 0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd
bruce 14990 0.0 0.3 5468 3356 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/telepa
bruce 15054 0.0 0.5 8100 5232 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/lib/telepa
bruce 15058 0.0 0.2 5936 2568 ? S Dec02 0:00 /usr/bin/telepa
bruce 15062 0.0 1.2 17672 13052 ? S Dec02 0:02 /usr/bin/python
boinc 22047 92.2 7.0 74720 72244 ? RNl Dec02 48:54 ../../projects/
boinc 22051 92.1 7.6 284004 78500 ? RN Dec02 48:51 wcg_faah_autodo
boinc 22052 0.0 7.6 284004 78500 ? SN Dec02 0:00 wcg_faah_autodo
boinc 22053 0.0 7.6 284004 78500 ? SN Dec02 0:00 wcg_faah_autodo
bruce 22939 6.4 8.2 184808 84632 ? Sl 00:00 1:55 epiphany-gecko
bruce 24076 2.1 1.7 43948 17776 ? Rl 00:30 0:00 gnome-terminal
bruce 24082 0.0 0.0 2912 764 ? S 00:30 0:00 gnome-pty-helpe
bruce 24083 0.1 0.2 4764 2076 pts/0 Rs 00:30 0:00 bash
bruce 24104 0.0 0.0 2744 1020 pts/0 R+ 00:30 0:00 ps aux

This is quite possibly down to Telepathy and BOINC.

[Dr Small]

Running Ubuntu 7.04, as my network server:

drsmall@mycroft:~$ ps aux | wc -l
133

Running ArchLinux, Openbox, feh, conky, firefox, sakura, vlc:

[drsmall@darkghost ~]$ ps aux | wc -l
70

[Gannon8]

127,000 / 1,000

Work your brain and do some math :popcorn:

[cardinals_fan]

[/home/me]$ ps aux | wc -l (12-01 15:41)
68

SliTaz Cooking, dwm, conky, Firefox, Alsaplayer (still trying to get cplay working...), mrxvt, Zsh.

[kernelhaxor]

132

[Dr Small]

127,000 / 1,000

Work your brain and do some math :popcorn:

[drsmall@darkghost ~]$ bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
127000 / 1000
127
quit
:D

[x0as]

95, debian etch server running apache, php, mysql, exim, fah, squid.

[Yes]

89 - Arch Linux running Firefox, MPD/ncmpcpp, Nitrogen, Xcompmgr, AwesomeWM, and two instances of F@H.

[sharon.gmc]

140. . . .

[-grubby]

On arch it was somewhere around 60 or 70. On Ubuntu, it's 139.

My DE/WM: Wmii
Current apps: Opera, Konversation, mrxvt, Pidgin, Gajim, Firefox

w00t, I'm on Arch again :

It's at 65 :

DE/WM: Wmii
Opera, Konversation, xterm, Gajim, Pidgin.

[Dr Small]

w00t, I'm on Arch again :

It's at 65 :

Opera, Konversation, xterm, Gajim, Pidgin.
You are one below me ;)
66

[markp1989]

Arch, running openbox,fbpanel. emesene, mpd , gmpc , firefox, 2 conkys , xfce terminal

[mark@markspc ~]$ ps aux | wc -l
55
[mark@markspc ~]$

[TheMyself]

139

I'm running Firefox, Opera, Evolution, Adobe Acrobat,...

Something weird about my processes is that there are 6 instances of getty running!

[RedSquirrel]

Something weird about my processes is that there are 6 instances of getty running!
Those are the virtual consoles.


Edit:

Fluxbox, conky, Firefox with a few tabs, and an xterm...

$ ps aux | wc -l
51

So, 50 processes, since one line from 'ps aux' is the header:


USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

[ratmandall]

109 Ubuntu 8.10
Xfce, XChat, rhythmbox, firefox, update manager

[Dr Small]

I split my conky script up six ways, am now running gnubiff, cplay, and screen (in the background). It brought my processes up considerably:

[drsmall@darkghost ~]$ ps aux | wc -l
76

My server is running slightly more:

drsmall@mycroft:~$ ps aux | wc -l
116

[sports fan Matt]

113
Firefox +2 tabs and pidgin

[tylerspaska]

laptop - 72

desktop - 159

server - 223

[S0m3th1ngw13rd]

ps aux | wc -l

125

opera with 3 tabs and gnome terminal

using this command shows 125 but my conky says 205. Why the difference?

[getaboat]

151 - which sound a little high with just FF (inc realplayer BBC R5), Thunderbird and Terminal.

What is scim? That seems to have a few associated with it.

[Eisenwinter]

70 processes.

[handy]

Arch, before calling Openbox:

handy ~ $ ps aux | wc -l
58

Arch, Openbox xfce4-panel Sakura:

handy ~ $ ps aux | wc -l
68

Arch, Openbox xfce4-panel Sakura Firefox:

handy ~ $ ps aux | wc -l
70

[earthpigg]

141.

i have a bunch of ram, and i intend to use it.

[-jay-]

112 yikes thats more then i had in vista it was only 32 processes & in xp was only 19

[chucky chuckaluck]

61. arch, openbox, conky, urxvt, firefox.

[avaralom]

on my server - 76

my poor laptop is running 95.. i have firefox, pidgin and the terminal open.

[schauerlich]

73. Using OS X.

[adamlau]

88. Arch + JWM + urxvtd + autocutsel.

[thegreenblob]

Desktop:


joe@desktop:~$ ps aux | wc -l
164
joe@desktop:~$

Running, gnome, firefox, gpodder, pidgin, VLC, gnome-terminal.

Laptop:


joe@laptop:~$ ps aux | wc -l
92
joe@laptop:~$

Running, openbox, pypanel, conky, firefox, terminator.

[Greyed]

KUbuntu in a VBox VM: 131 (Tbird/FF running)
Home file server/router/firewall running Debian: 130
Leased VM hosting mail/ftp/web services running Debian: 66

[Bachstelze]

21



firas@matsuri ~ % uname -ap
OpenBSD matsuri.ichigo.fkraiem.org 4.3 GENERIC#2 i386 Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache)
firas@matsuri ~ % ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.2 352 316 ?? Is 6Feb09 0:00.23 /sbin/init
root 24095 0.0 0.5 488 676 ?? Is 6Feb09 0:00.03 syslogd: [priv] (syslogd)
_syslogd 14284 0.0 0.6 552 788 ?? S 6Feb09 0:04.28 syslogd -a /var/named/dev/log -a /var/empty/dev/log
root 882 0.0 0.6 1960 748 ?? Is 6Feb09 0:00.00 named: [priv] (named)
named 29011 0.0 12.3 15348 16024 ?? S 6Feb09 0:45.93 named
_ntp 22389 0.0 0.6 480 768 ?? Ss 6Feb09 0:38.60 ntpd: ntp engine (ntpd)
root 18176 0.0 0.6 524 772 ?? Is 6Feb09 0:00.12 ntpd: [priv] (ntpd)
root 17814 0.0 0.6 448 752 ?? Is 6Feb09 0:00.03 inetd
root 27036 0.0 0.9 496 1196 ?? Is 6Feb09 0:07.52 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 5402 0.0 0.7 684 888 ?? Ss 6Feb09 0:01.87 cron
root 22670 0.0 1.4 1116 1832 ?? Ss 6Feb09 0:33.16 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
firas 29049 0.0 0.5 364 696 ?? Is 6Feb09 0:00.00 ssh-agent -s
root 29762 0.0 1.9 3316 2420 ?? Is Sat01AM 0:00.09 sshd: firas [priv] (sshd)
firas 17430 0.0 2.4 4492 3148 ?? S Sat01AM 0:00.72 sshd: firas@ttyp0 (sshd)
firas 20372 0.0 1.9 820 2428 p0 Ss Sat01AM 0:00.30 -zsh (zsh)
firas 16516 0.0 0.2 284 216 p0 R+ 7:06AM 0:00.01 ps -aux
root 15664 0.0 0.6 308 792 C0 Is+ 6Feb09 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC0
root 4642 0.0 0.6 280 776 C1 Is+ 6Feb09 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC1
root 17587 0.0 0.6 388 792 C2 Is+ 6Feb09 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC2
root 4672 0.0 0.6 220 788 C3 Is+ 6Feb09 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC3
root 19574 0.0 0.6 392 792 C5 Is+ 6Feb09 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC5

[TheOrangePeanut]

86

I'm running KDE4 as a DE, and Xchat, Amarok, Pidgin, Firefox, and Kate open as apps.

[zika]

when i stopped hal in sysv-rc-conf, couldnt get an internet connection
when I stoped hal in sysv-rc-conf I could not type username and pass in login screen. Ctrl-Alt-F1 worked fine.

[RichardLinx]

139.
Totem, Firefox, Pidgin, XChat

[spupy]

77

This is fluxbox, and the only window that is opened is Firefox. :O

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

63. Distro: Lunar Linux. WM: Fluxbox. Apps Running: xterm, ncmpc, vim, midori

[cardinals_fan]

57

SliTaz, ratpoison, Firefox, mrxvt, zsh (twice), and screen.

[BazookaAce]

122

Running Firefox, Pidgin and Transmission. And of course 119 other things..

[bruce89]

112 yikes thats more then i had in vista it was only 32 processes & in xp was only 19

That is not an issue. Out of the 142 processes that are "running" here, only 4 are actually running at this time. Also, UNIX systems tend to have large numbers of small programs. For instance, one process for the panels, one for the desktop background / file browser, one for each notification applet, one for each file system backend implementation etc.

By the way, I'd like to know the proper terms for "running" and "actually running".

[Saija]

141

Distro = Intrepid, DE=Kde 4.2

"visible" apps: Firefox with just one tab, konsole, okular, amarok and dolphin

[markp1989]

on my arch setup i have 63

heres is a list of them if any of you care


[mark@markpc ~]$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 3800 628 ? Ss Mar07 0:00 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [migration/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [migration/1]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:02 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [watchdog/1]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [events/0]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [events/1]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [khelper]
root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kstop/0]
root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kstop/1]
root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kblockd/1]
root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kacpid]
root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kseriod]
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar07 0:00 [pdflush]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar07 0:00 [pdflush]
root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [aio/0]
root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [aio/1]
root 38 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [ata/0]
root 39 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [ata/1]
root 40 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [ata_aux]
root 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 43 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root 44 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root 45 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
root 513 0.0 0.0 5960 636 ? S<s Mar07 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root 1011 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root 1012 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [khubd]
root 1076 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 [kpsmoused]
root 1432 0.0 0.0 3796 584 tty2 Ss+ Mar07 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/2 linux
root 2263 0.0 0.0 26756 840 ? Sl Mar07 0:01 /opt/fah-smp/fah6 -smp -verbosity 9 -forceasm
root 2268 0.0 0.0 8240 676 ? S Mar07 0:00 ./mpiexec -np 4 -host 127.0.0.1 ./FahCore_a1.exe -dir work/ -suffix 07 -checkpoint 15 -forceasm -verbose -lifeline 2263 -version 602
root 2269 43.9 0.5 61332 21852 ? SNl Mar07 422:26 ./FahCore_a1.exe -dir work/ -suffix 07 -checkpoint 15 -forceasm -verbose -lifeline 2263 -version 602
root 2270 39.3 0.4 58784 19532 ? SNl Mar07 378:31 ./FahCore_a1.exe -dir work/ -suffix 07 -checkpoint 15 -forceasm -verbose -lifeline 2263 -version 602
root 2271 36.6 0.4 58656 19556 ? SNl Mar07 352:09 ./FahCore_a1.exe -dir work/ -suffix 07 -checkpoint 15 -forceasm -verbose -lifeline 2263 -version 602
root 2272 35.2 0.4 58908 19740 ? SNl Mar07 339:18 ./FahCore_a1.exe -dir work/ -suffix 07 -checkpoint 15 -forceasm -verbose -lifeline 2263 -version 602
root 3872 0.0 0.0 43452 1200 tty1 Ss 12:38 0:00 /bin/login -f vc/1
mark 3877 0.0 0.0 15640 1536 tty1 S+ 12:38 0:00 -bash
mark 3883 0.0 0.0 14420 924 tty1 S+ 12:38 0:00 xinit
root 3884 2.2 0.8 106476 35800 tty3 S<s+ 12:38 0:17 X :0
mark 3890 0.0 0.1 78276 7188 tty1 S 12:38 0:00 /usr/bin/openbox
mark 3893 0.0 0.2 146336 11588 tty1 S 12:38 0:00 fbpanel
mark 3894 0.2 0.1 70764 4912 tty1 Sl 12:38 0:02 conky
mark 3906 0.1 0.1 66912 4672 tty1 S 12:38 0:01 conky -c .conkyrcrigt
mark 3916 0.0 0.0 8384 908 ? Ss 12:38 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
mark 3917 0.0 0.0 22832 732 tty1 S 12:38 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
mark 3924 0.0 0.0 30024 2204 ? S 12:38 0:00 xbindkeys
mark 4040 0.0 0.0 13540 1340 ? S 12:38 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/emesene
mark 4041 0.1 0.8 248492 36156 ? Sl 12:38 0:01 python /usr/share/emesene/Controller.py
mark 4132 2.3 2.2 483808 90952 tty1 Sl 12:39 0:18 firefox
mark 4135 0.0 0.0 35504 2876 ? S 12:39 0:00 /usr/lib/GConf/gconfd-2
mark 5762 1.3 0.1 143356 7144 ? SLl 12:42 0:08 mpd
mark 5865 0.7 0.4 156484 16576 tty1 Sl 12:42 0:03 gmpc
mark 9787 0.0 0.1 51984 4448 tty1 R 12:50 0:00 xterm
mark 9788 0.0 0.0 15772 1804 pts/1 Rs 12:50 0:00 bash
mark 10466 0.0 0.0 8396 936 pts/1 R+ 12:51 0:00 ps aux
[mark@markpc ~]$

[markp1989]

when I stoped hal in sysv-rc-conf I could not type username and pass in login screen. Ctrl-Alt-F1 worked fine.

i dont normaly use a log in scree, so i never had that problem