[ubuntu-in] does anybody know what ps -ef | wc -l stand for?

[Manish]

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shirish wrote:
> I heard some comments on ubuntuforums the other day, frankly didn't
>  know that so many processes are there on the system and frankly
> they do so seem high a number, even though many of them may be
> sleeping.
Hi,

Some of the processes are required on any *nix OS. Like how can a *nix
os not have init? Same applies for
syslogd,acpid,hald,cron,dbus-daemon,gdm etc.
There may be many sub processes of the same process. e.g. I have 9
apache processes.

Regards,
Manish
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