I'm booting to runlevel 3, do i really need all these processes that seem to have to do with running KDE?

ion 3460 0.0 3.8 23408 9420 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: Running.
ion 3473 0.0 3.9 23288 9672 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserv
ion 3475 0.0 4.3 24504 10896 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: klaunche
ion 3478 0.0 4.9 25216 12308 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: kded
ion 3488 0.0 5.8 30568 14604 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: knotify
ion 3491 0.0 4.8 24568 11920 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: ksmserve
ion 3492 0.0 5.1 25100 12844 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: kwin -se
ion 3494 0.4 7.5 32232 18716 ? S 00:14 0:03 kdeinit: kdesktop
ion 3527 0.1 5.9 26800 14732 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: kicker
ion 3528 0.0 4.1 24160 10196 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file
ion 3536 0.0 5.0 24600 12592 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: klipper
ion 3540 0.0 4.7 24452 11756 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: kaccess
ion 3542 0.0 5.7 26224 14220 ? S 00:14 0:00 kdeinit: kmix -se

If i don't need them, how do i stop them from loading?

/Jonas

Yup KDE needs all that.....
the only one i don't have in my list is kio_file
I'm not using PAM
possibly that's it
KDE does run better without PAM

Yes i can understand that but i'm currently not running KDE, i'm just booting to the console (runlevel 3). Do i still need them?

It looks to me like you actually are running KDE (and X). In other words, it is loaded into memory. Ctrl-Alt-F7 might change to the graphical display. The different F keys correspond to different virtual consoles.

There might be problems with the system's initialization files. Check /etc/inittab and the output of /sbin/chkconfig --list. X11, xdm, kdm, prefdm or anything like that shouldn't be started at a text-only runlevel. To get the manuals for inittab, init, chkconfig or whatever, use man <name of the thing>, eg. man chkconfig.

Regards
Simon

EDIT: To be clear, those processes you mentioned are not needed if you don't want to use KDE.

Sorry for the delay, but i found the problem:

I was running vncserver! oops ;-)