/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 09/16/2008 08:55 AM, Sambit Bikas Pal wrote:
>> I have three machines running Hardy. On each of them I see exactly 61
>> console-kit-daemons running. They do consume a considerable amount of
>> memory, and terminating them, doesn't really affect anything. Can someone
>> kindly clarify the need of these 61 console-kit-daemons ?
>> 
> 
> See:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/148454

Ah!  _threads_ not processes.  I have 62 console-kit _threads_. Frankly, I'd
just stop using commands that show threads, and the problem goes away.

As Nick Demou tried to say in the bug report: threads are essentially free.
-- 
derek