so, revently i have realized that there are a huge ammount of processes running that i dont know what they are doing, or why they are running... here is a list. i have turned off all unnessesary services, yet i still get about 100 processes at boot

this is a list of processes i dont know why they are running, if somoene could let me know, and if unnessesary, let me know how to turn them off... thanks

also, is there a list of files that start when you start kde anywhere? i have a feeling i opened programs but they did not cleanly shutdown, but when kde restarts it re-opens them. is there a way to flush the list of programs kde runs on x start?


PID PGID SID TTY TIME CMD
1 1 1 ? 00:00:00 init
6 1 1 ? 00:00:00 khelper
7 1 1 ? 00:00:00 kthread
10 1 1 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
11 1 1 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
146 1 1 ? 00:00:00 khubd
148 1 1 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
207 1 1 ? 00:00:01 pdflush
208 1 1 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
210 1 1 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
373 1 1 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
423 1 1 ? 00:00:00 kmirrord
434 1 1 ? 00:00:04 kjournald
473 1 1 ? 00:00:00 kauditd
1403 1 1 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
209 1 1 ? 00:00:03 kswapd0
500 500 500 ? 00:00:00 udevd
1721 1721 1721 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
1882 1882 1882 ? 00:00:00 xfs
1899 1899 1899 ? 00:00:01 hald
1900 1899 1899 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
1906 1899 1899 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
1909 1899 1899 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
1919 1899 1899 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
1921 1899 1899 ? 00:00:13 hald-addon-stor
1936 1936 1936 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
1939 1939 1939 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
1942 1942 1942 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
1945 1945 1945 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
1946 1946 1946 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
1991 1991 1991 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
2002 2002 2002 ? 00:00:00 prefdm
2191 2190 2190 ? 00:00:01 gam_server
32148 32148 32148 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
32688 32688 32688 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
32689 32636 32636 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
32745 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
32750 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
32760 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 kwin
32761 32761 32761 ? 00:00:00 kompmgr
32767 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
300 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 kio_media
301 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
32748 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 dcopserver
32752 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 kded
32759 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver
309 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 kaccess
317 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
390 32745 32745 ? 00:00:00 knotify

If you really want to know what each and every process is doing, you should probably start with a Google search on the process name. Try searching on "hald". OK, so you find out there's some photographer dude named hald. Try "hald linux" and your Google hits get much closer!

If that list you posted are the only processes you can't enunciate exactly what they are doing, you're doing much better than average! Sure, I recognize a bunch of those in your list (init, getty, hald, etc.) But I certainly couldn't tell you what each other process does specifically. Basically, you could group most of them together into one category ... "your operating system" !

Those processes seem pretty normal to me. Some of those "k" processes are not from KDE apps but kernel related processes. The KDE processes that are running also seem to be the default processes that run when you start KDE or run a KDE/Qt app.