[Bug 19706] New: Lots of processes not closing (kaffeine, kiofile, kiohttp, rc, usplash)

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           Summary: Lots of processes not closing (kaffeine, kiofile,
                    kiohttp, rc, usplash)
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: UNKNOWN
        AssignedTo: debzilla at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: adrien_cordonnier at yahoo.fr
         QAContact: kubuntu-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


My computer ressources are quickly short: a lot of processes actually do stay alive   
even after closed. The most common ones are:   
   
* kaffeine: almost always stay alive after closing. I do not know if it is the same   
but there used to be such a bug in winter 2004 on both kubuntu and mandriva. It was   
related to xorg optimization called to late;   
   
* kiofile, kiohttp, kiotrash: such processes stay alive even after the konqueror 
tab was closed or even the last konqueror window was closed. It is very annoying 
when I want to eject a CD: no program uses it but the tray does not open; 
   
* rc, usplash, chvt: they stay alive after boot time without any use;   
   
* ssh-agent: after the connection is closed by a shutdown of the remote computer,   
after a while, the console become available again but the processes stay alive in   
the background.   
   
It might also be related with the fact that a lot of program have sometimes two   
instances (started alone, not after one crash and another is started manually). It   
especially happens with amaroK, artsd, yakuake. With amaroK, the second process 
differs slighty from the real window process: PID and a bit less "used" RAM. The 
process is re-created after killed, the RAM is not freed as the huge amount of 
combined "used" RAM let guess the two processes "share" the RAM. I'm not sure but 
the "used" RAM of kiofile and kiohttp also seems bigger than the amount freed after 
killing these processes.

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