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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:20 pm
by anti-m
I have 26 currently, but there are quite a few I could kill without ill-effect -- like Picassa Media Detector and the stoopid MS Messaging thingy.
My work computer has a much longer list. Probably in the high 50s.
For process research, I often use
http://www.answersthatwork.com. They have a nice library of legit / malware processess... although not everything is in there.
--Em
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:05 pm
by Eric Y.
mine only shows 13
but i don't have XP or NT, which display a more accurate list of active processes. incidentally, i have at least a vague concept of what all 13 are for.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:15 pm
by pegor
fodroy wrote:i don't even know how to check on a mac.
I think OSX is running on a real operating system. You could probably open a terminal window and type ps -ef| /usr/bin/wc -l. It's a BSD variant so it might be somthing like ps -ax| /usr/bin/wc -l. I'm kinda guessing.
Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:50 pm
by fluffy
laptop
server
Code: Select all
honey:~ fluffy$ ps auxwww | wc -l
83
studio
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sparkle:~ fluffy$ ps auxwww | wc -l
89
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:35 am
by Sober
62.
I know what less than 20 of these do.
At one point I tried shutting down (and in many cases deleting altogether) every process I couldn't find a definitive purpose for (I still only got it down to like 51), and I ended up screwing things up pretty bad. I only have 512 ram on my laptop, and it's really killing me. Anyone have any good XP tweak resources?
That's a shot from a particularly epic freezup I had a couple weeks ago. Took the machine about 45 minutes to recover.
My laptop is less than 6 months old.
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:05 am
by HeuristicsInc
Starfinger recommends this site:
musicxp.net.
Hopefully that will help.
-bill