Quick! How many processes are running on your computer?

[anti-m]

I have 26 currently, but there are quite a few I could kill without ill-effect -- like Picassa Media Detector and the stoopid MS Messaging thingy.

My work computer has a much longer list. Probably in the high 50s.

For process research, I often use http://www.answersthatwork.com. They have a nice library of legit / malware processess... although not everything is in there.


--Em

[Eric Y.]

mine only shows 13
but i don't have XP or NT, which display a more accurate list of active processes. incidentally, i have at least a vague concept of what all 13 are for.

[pegor]

i don't even know how to check on a mac.

I think OSX is running on a real operating system. You could probably open a terminal window and type ps -ef| /usr/bin/wc -l. It's a BSD variant so it might be somthing like ps -ax| /usr/bin/wc -l. I'm kinda guessing.

[fluffy]

laptop

Code: Select all

wendigo:~$ ps auxwww | wc -l
      81

server

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honey:~ fluffy$ ps auxwww | wc -l
      83

studio

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sparkle:~ fluffy$ ps auxwww | wc -l
      89

[Sober]

62.

I know what less than 20 of these do.

At one point I tried shutting down (and in many cases deleting altogether) every process I couldn't find a definitive purpose for (I still only got it down to like 51), and I ended up screwing things up pretty bad. I only have 512 ram on my laptop, and it's really killing me. Anyone have any good XP tweak resources?



That's a shot from a particularly epic freezup I had a couple weeks ago. Took the machine about 45 minutes to recover.

My laptop is less than 6 months old.

[HeuristicsInc]

Starfinger recommends this site: musicxp.net.
Hopefully that will help.
-bill