Multiple nautilus, evolution proc's. Normal? - yes [solved]

CoffeeBuzz · Last edited by CoffeeBuzz on Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:53 pm; edited 3 times in total

Is it normal for within a single Gnome session there are 6 nautilus processes?

CoffeeBuzz · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:00 pm Post subject:

heres a snap of top. note, thats chewing up about 42% of memory (1Gig total!) and thats not even everything.

CoffeeBuzz · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:45 pm Post subject:

Ok. gnome is definitly not suppose to act like this. On a FC4 machine, theres only one process per application. What would cause multiple children of the same application? It's not becasue of the "-j4" MAKEOPTS flag or something like that would it?

I noticed this morning that theres also two gdm managers running (one a child of the other). The other weird thing is that gkrellm2 shows some 784M out of 1010M memory is free while "free" shows that only 81M is free (see above).

Any ideas on how to approach solving this (other than remerging gnome?).

Thanks,
Chris

CoffeeBuzz · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject:

One other thing that may be related ... gdm ALWAYS fails to shutdown on a system reboot/shutdown. Perhpas I have my window manager configured wrong?

Actually upon furhter investigation, the gdm shutdown error is a known bug.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24399

Still unclear why apps are spawning multiple children.

CoffeeBuzz · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject:

Solved. There is no issue.

> These are not acutally different processes, but multiple threads of the same
> process. If you try this command:
>
> ps -o user,nlwp,args ww --pid $(pgrep -d, -f firefox)
>
> And look at the NLWP column, you will see the number of lightweight
> processes (threads on linux) is >1 (7 in my case). Each of those threads shares the
> same memory. So, you don't have 7 * 86MB in use, you only have 1 * 86 MB in use.