2 gdm processes sleeping

[René]

> Am 03.01.2006, 23:38 Uhr, schrieb Jhair Tocancipa Triana  
> <jhair_tocancipa at gmx.net>:

> >René  writes:
>>
>> hello,
>> how does it come that in System Monitor i do see 2 gdm processes (both
>> around 11MB) sleeping, but only one user is logged in?

> GDM forks itself (i.e. creates a copy of its process) per-default:
>
> $ pstree -p 4683
> gdm(4683)───gdm(4693)─┬─Xorg(4725)
>                       └─gnome-session(4964)───ssh-agent(5015)
>
> It seems you can disable that behaviour with the -nodaemon flag of
> gdm:
>
> $ man gdm | grep -A2 "nodaemon"
> Reformatting gdm(1), please wait...
>        -nodaemon
>               Do not fork into the background
>
> Normally this is nothing one should take care of, but the option is
> there, so I assume it is intended for environments with few memory...

with this answer I am very pleased. thank you.