Excess processes

[Colin Law]

On 17 May 2013 16:58, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> Per top:
> 895 MB (video is probably shared)
> running 1 app (Thunderbird):
> 762MB used, 134MB free
>
> Swap: 1.46GB,   808 bytes used
>
> I think it might have something to do with all the processes.  Or there was
> net communications that I am unaware of. (No download or upgrade in
> process).

It is normal to see hundreds of processes.  My top says tasks: 201.

Colin

>
> Thanks for the top reminder, haven't used it in years.
>
> John
>
>
>
> On 05/16/2013 01:13 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 16 May 2013 17:23, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just noticed a lot of hd thrashing while was looking at a web page with
>>> tb
>>> running in a separate window (of course!).  I was surprised because this
>>> computer is running linux, not mswin.  I looked at the task manager and
>>> saw
>>> lots of processes running that were of either uk or of no interest to me.
>>
>> If the hard disk thrashing you may have run out of RAM.  How much have you
>> got?
>> In a terminal, run
>> top
>> and see how much swap you are using, if that is more than a few tens
>> of Meg it probably means you have not got enough RAM.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
>
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