Thread: Maemo has 100+ processes running when idle! Why? Can they be killed?
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colnago is offline colnago
2010-01-08 , 18:33
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
Well.. just the basics of the GNU/Linux platform do spawn separate processes for most different parts.. plus then you have X windows, then the sound system, then any running monitors or services..

Linux typically has a higher number of processes running at a given time.. I don't think it would effect battery life too much unless one of those processes was constantly hitting the CPU...

Do you have your conky monitoring processor usage?
I only have the app (Conky) running, in stock form, from what was DL'd from the the repository (not testing nor dev. versions). I thought that the "processes" listing could have possibly been for "installed" processes, but I had opened a few apps and the number jumped to 218, which is what I suspected...its an "active" listing.

I'm trying to post the pics from my flikr account but I'm new with that...I'll try to move them to my other sharing account, but basically I turned off everything that I could. The only thing running in the status bar is the clock and the battery bar.

p.s. - why did this get moved to the OS forum?
Last edited by colnago; 2010-01-08 at 18:47.