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That is the output to ps aux. It seems to be opening folding way to many times. It should only be 2 instances with 2 FAH Cores. It is doing it with xmms too for some reason. Any ideas as to why?
Dunno, looks OK to me. I have F@H running as a startup service and usually see three or four instances of FAHcore. Similar results for Firefox - usually around six instances of that anytime I'm running it. My guess is that it's forked or spawned sub-processes: if you use 'ps auxf' it'll print out a "tree" view that shows which processes are children of other processes.
Many apps spawn multiple instances of the program to act as threads, you'll find that a lot of programs do this so you don't need to worry about it. On my typical desktop i usually around 100 process.
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