proc = process

just curious on the average number of running process because when i was at RIT a large majority of the computers that i had to clean up was loaded down with crap. anyway most common complaiment was their computer were slow or laggish on a freaking 3 ghz computer. anyway i checked and i noticed on most machine the average number of process was over 60-100+

here i am running on a 2.8 ghz and my average number of process is about 16-20 on windows xp.

and on linux its about 40-100+ but that's because linux has many more but more efficent processes plus i do more stuff on it such as webhosting, decidadated servers etc..... plus running emerge in background (gentoo linux)

anyway post yer average procs! curious what's the average here.

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28.. 4 of those are norton.. 3 are creative sound thingys.. one is an ati thing.. and one is for the special features on my keyboard.

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22, most of which I have no idea what it is..

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32 currently, but I've got a fair few apps open.

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---Thomas jefferson, Declaration of Independance.

28

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Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.

At boot up I have 14.

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[This message has been edited by Sol (edited July 01, 2004).]

10, not counting the program I use to check.

Do I get a prize?

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39, counting the Task Manager.

That's with my MOBO Monitor, Ultramon (which kicks!), Ultramon's secondary one (In case the first crashes? who knows), Daemon Tools, AVG, CD-Detector carp, ATI, Volume Control, Winamp (It's running longer than nearly every program), Mirc, Firefox, Graphic Tablet, Mouse, and a couple other's I don't care about. All the rest is windows services and stuff.

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About a douzen.

Everytime I boot, I shut down everything that looks useless.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

28 for me.

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Those silly bullets have minds of their own!
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

The joys of Windows. NOTHING is ever labled coherently.

I have 38 running right now. This is pretty accurate for me as I've got a normal load on the system right now.

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I have (yuk) 32, but 16 are 644k or less. Ok one question, how the HECK are you supposed to get rid of the msmsgs.exe?? It takes up like 8 meg of RAM, and every time I kill it it comes back in like 30 sec. It's evil, I have tried every way but it still haunts me.

31, including trillian, opera, IE, winamp, virus scan.

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[You have gained 3 Dark Side Points]

hahaha I win!

49, none of them spyware. It's amazing that my computer still runs like a dream with all those processes going on.

App-Wise, Firefox is always on. BulletProof FTP Server is always on, along with AIM, WASTE, Ultr@VNC, Mobo Monitor, WindowsBlinds, and mIRC.

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Not counting IE, or Task Manager... 12

Were it not for the special features of the touch pad on here, or the wireless card, it'd be 9

My desktop should be 9, but it's well over do for a cleaning up, so it might be more.

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30, 5 of which are "SVCHOST.EXE", which I don't know what it is... but I know if I stop them from running, my computer shuts down.

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"May your gravity well be shallow, and your deBroglie wavelength short."

According to the following command..


..Ive got 91 running proccesses....

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

Oh, that's really nothing. Have you ever tried UT2k4 editing? All of the game files have these really weird confusing naming conventions. Like, you're trying to find a good catwalk mesh, so you open up some pack called "bridge meshes", thinking it would at least have -something- related to a bridge in there, but it's really just an untextured cube!

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

36 on boot.

About 31 procs for me. Four of them are svchosts and a good deal of them are just programs in the tray icon area of the taskbar like DAP, Winamp, quicktime, etc.

-- SavageX

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http://geocities.com/savagex378

Yeah. The only coherent ones are ones labeled "xHardware" or "xArchitecture"... for any more you have to search and dig deep into the archives...

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Wise men say that fools rush in where angels fear to tread, so look before you leap, so to speak, because the grass is not always greener on the other side of the hill.

Of course, they put the X there just to annoy you so you can't search alphabetically!

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

I've got 60 running right now, but thats only after I end all my programs and then start up the things I need. Usually I have atleast 10 more open.
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A computer's worst nightmare:
0010111010011110210011010001

[This message has been edited by gammasts.]

I don't know how some of you can have so many running, half of those are gateways for viruses and eat up resources like Pacman eats thoses round balls. Those 14 that I have running, are essential for my computer to boot up and run everything normal.

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Massassian since: March 12, 2001

[This message has been edited by Sol (edited July 01, 2004).]

Currently 73 on Gentoo. Why are there 8 XMMS-Processes?

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Sorry for the lousy English

Yeah, thats always bugged me too...

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

31

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33, Counting Trillion, FireFox, iTunes, and four svghost.exe's .

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Kill Your Idols!

21 right now.

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I bet you think that's funny, don't you.

I finally got off my *** and looked up my proc list and appearly i forgot to disable quite a bit of BS and security hole proc.

anyway i'm now down to 11 proc on bootup from my 16

on gentoo on bootup lowest ive ever seen it was around 30ish but averaged abot 60 to over 100+ *Shungs* been finding some wierd procs in the list guess its just time to do an little cleanup of my linux installation

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