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A whole load of junk processes

I have noticed that after sometime a whole load of junk processes remain in the background.

When I do "ps -A" in the terminal I see a whole load of things that shouldn't be there. Like 7 nautilus, 2 pythons, 6 to 10 firefox-bin's

Not that these are causing any problems, but is there any way I can kill these useless processes? And why do they remain in the first place? When I shut down say, nautilus, the process should shut down too. Why does it remain in the background?

Have a look at the number of nautilus I have running right now:

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1505 ?        00:00:04 nautilus

 1506 ?        00:00:00 nautilus

 1507 ?        00:00:00 nautilus

 1509 ?        00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo

 1510 ?        00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo

 1511 ?        00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo

 1530 ?        00:00:00 nautilus

 1531 ?        00:00:00 nautilus

 1533 ?        00:00:00 mapping-daemon

 1534 ?        00:00:00 nautilus

 1535 ?        00:00:00 nautilus

 1536 ?        00:00:00 nautilus

 1538 ?        00:00:16 wnck-applet

Using Gnome 2.6 on slack 10. Kernel 2.4.26

If you use gnome, junk is what you get :)

j/k ... it's perfectly normal to have several
processes for only one instance of mozilla,
firefox or nauseous. Don't kill any of them.

KDE will do similar things in terms of excessive
kdeinits, that's just how those apps are designed,
if that doesn't do it for you ask on the devel-list
WHY they are done like that.

Cheers,
Tink

I see. I dont really mind the clutter since it doesn't hog up memory.

Thanks for the answer :)