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Shredi Master 08-17-2001 05:09 PM

Stuff running in the background...?
 
is it normal for there to be 13 different gmc processes running in the background of my mandrake 8.0 linux box? If not, how do I shut the extra processes down?

isajera 08-18-2001 12:56 AM

ok... i don't know what gmc is, so i'll assume that it's a mandrake-specific prog. but, it's not at all unusual to have a large number of processes running under the same program. mingetty, httpd, and a few others run many processes simultaneously. it's usually not a concern. however, if you feel the need to kill a process, do exactly that : type

ps -f

at the command prompt, and the computer will spit out a bunch of processes with their number names. refer to them by the numbers using the kill command :

kill 6745

that should do it.

newb7 08-22-2001 09:48 AM

GMC is the gnome midnigth commander, it has a process for every icon on your desktop.


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