Re: Nautilus processes

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

В Втр, 29/03/2005 в 15:48 +0400, Artur Sibagatullin пишет:
> Hi
> I've got a question about Nautilus.
> Why after starting X there are many Nautilus processes which take a lot of 
> memory. For example:
> 
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 
> 11710 turich    15   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:02.89 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11710 turich    15   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:02.89 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11711 turich    16   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11712 turich    15   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11713 turich    16   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11714 turich    15   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11715 turich    15   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11716 turich    19   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11717 turich    19   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11718 turich    16   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11719 turich    16   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.04 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11720 turich    15   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11721 turich    20   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11722 turich    18   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus 
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 
> What for this processes? Are they all necessary? And if no how to kill them?
> 

It is threads not processes and they are necessary. In older glibc 2.2,
like you have, every thread is displayed in ps output. Now situation is
different in 2.3, if you'll upgrade you'll see only one process. 

Don't worry, they share the same memory, so they don't eat many
resources.