Processes on startup

EclipseAgent · 11-23-2005, 08:22 PM

Hi,

I wanted to know what is typical for startup on a SuSE 10.0 System running KDE 3.5.0 (Level "a").

I just wanted to understand more on linux's boot sequense etc. I am kind of a newbie, so feel free to explain any processes, here is the output from just a regular ps command.

PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 init
2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
3 ? 00:00:00 events/0
4 ? 00:00:00 khelper
5 ? 00:00:00 kthread
11 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
597 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
632 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
633 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
635 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
634 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
1225 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
1424 ? 00:00:00 reiserfs/0
2550 ? 00:00:00 udevd
2871 ? 00:00:00 khubd
3565 ? 00:00:00 khpsbpkt
3566 ? 00:00:00 knodemgrd_0
3567 ? 00:00:00 pccardd
3879 ? 00:00:00 pccardd
4341 ? 00:00:00 ipw2100/0
4477 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
4651 ? 00:00:00 syslog-ng
4654 ? 00:00:00 klogd
4679 ? 00:00:00 resmgrd
4828 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
4979 ? 00:00:00 kdm
4981 tty7 00:00:04 X
5009 ? 00:00:00 kdm
5388 ? 00:00:00 kde
5583 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
5584 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
5786 ? 00:00:00 mdnsd
5811 ? 00:00:00 portmap
5865 ? 00:00:00 acpid
5878 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
5879 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
5886 ? 00:00:00 startpar
5923 ? 00:00:00 nscd
5959 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
5976 ? 00:00:00 dcopserver
5977 ? 00:00:00 nmbd
6019 ? 00:00:00 smpppd
6052 ? 00:00:00 master
6053 ? 00:00:00 pickup
6054 ? 00:00:00 qmgr
6099 ? 00:00:00 cron
6109 ? 00:00:01 hald
6125 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
6156 ? 00:00:00 powersaved
6178 ? 00:00:00 iald
6211 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
6270 ? 00:00:00 kded
6272 ? 00:00:00 sshd
6293 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
6304 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
6305 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
6306 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
6307 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
6308 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
6309 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
6534 ? 00:00:00 smbd
6536 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper
6538 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver
6540 ? 00:00:00 smbd
6541 ? 00:00:01 kwin
6543 ? 00:00:01 kdesktop
6545 ? 00:00:01 kicker
6546 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
6548 ? 00:00:00 kpowersave
6550 ? 00:00:00 klipper
6553 ? 00:00:00 susewatcher
6555 ? 00:00:01 suseplugger
6556 ? 00:00:00 kinternet
6558 ? 00:00:02 superkaramba
6560 ? 00:00:00 kmix
6562 ? 00:00:01 akregator
6565 ? 00:00:00 knotify
6566 ? 00:00:02 amarokapp
6567 ? 00:00:02 kopete
6570 ? 00:00:00 konqueror
6582 ? 00:00:00 kio_http
6586 ? 00:00:00 kio_http
6590 ? 00:00:00 kio_http
6591 ? 00:00:00 kio_http
6723 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
6733 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
6734 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
6774 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
6775 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
6779 ? 00:00:00 konsole
6788 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
6802 pts/0 00:00:00 ps

I know this is quite different from the top command since those show processes that are using CPU / Mem etc.

Some of the things I had the most questions on are:

kio_http, kio_file, why konqueror (starts, but no window opens), I know why kopete, and amarokapp, akregator, and all those other common ones are on there, but wanted to know about the kio's and mingetty.

Any info would be great. Thanks.

abisko00 · 11-24-2005, 02:46 AM

I think that mingetty runs the text-console, which you can access with Alt+F1-6 (or Ctrl+Alt+F1-6, if from graphical mode).

abisko00 · 11-24-2005, 03:48 AM

I have checked the processes on my system using the more fancy output of ksysguard. I found that konqueror is preloaded (probably to speed it up) and the kio processes shows access of kdeinit to certain files or cached webpages. The output of ksysguard shows which. Since you are using superkaramba, you may have some http files that provide content for your desktop (explaining kio_http). I also recognized that some of these connections remain open after I closed konqueror.