Hi, strange phenomenon i have no explanation for:

at boot my box starts several processes and deamons more than once so the box is working pretty slow. Here is what ps -e gives out (short version):
1 ? 00:00:05 init
2 ? 00:00:00 keventd
3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
5 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
6 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
7 ? 00:00:00 kinoded
8 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
11 ? 00:00:00 kreiserfsd
372 ? 00:00:00 lvm-mpd
917 ? 00:00:00 eth0
923 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
988 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
991 ? 00:00:00 klogd
1050 ? 00:00:00 khubd
1335 ? 00:00:00 resmgrd
1384 ? 00:00:00 portmap
1481 ? 00:00:00 acpid
1482 ? 00:00:00 mysqld_safe
1515 ? 00:00:00 mysqld
1577 ? 00:00:00 sshd
1580 ? 00:00:00 mysqld
1581 ? 00:00:00 mysqld
1642 ? 00:00:00 amavisd
1757 ? 00:00:00 amavisd
1768 ? 00:00:00 amavisd
1801 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
2247 ? 00:00:00 smpppd
2319 ? 00:00:00 kdm
2365 ? 00:00:00 nscd
2366 ? 00:00:00 nscd
2367 ? 00:00:00 nscd
2368 ? 00:00:00 nscd
2369 ? 00:00:00 nscd
2370 ? 00:00:00 nscd
2371 ? 00:00:00 nscd
2475 ? 00:00:00 cron
2533 ? 00:00:11 X
2809 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
2810 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
2812 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
2815 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
2816 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
2817 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
2818 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
2819 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
2820 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty

so there are about 3 mysqld running, mingetty ,sendmail and so on
Any ideas what might cause the problem?
Would be great! Thanks al lot for your time.
j.

Looks fairly normal to me.....

There is one mingetty running for each virtual terminal (try hitting CTRL-ALT-1 and you will be connected to a non-graphical login prompt thanks to mingety.... use CTRL-ALT-7 to get back to the GUI)

Many other processed spawn off children to handle a specific task (the first one becomes the parents and watches over the children that do all of the real work (just like in real life ;-) )

You might be able to see some more details by running 'ps -aelf'

thanks Linux_in_NH, i guess you're right. looking at more details with ps -aelf was a good idea. Seems there's nothing wrong with the box in this respect. Maybe i'm simply too impatient sometimes...is there a forum that could help me to get rid of that? ;-) thanks again..