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On my Linux machine, not even a server but just a desktop, there are 111 running processes. There's room for growth in multi-core yet.
by JulianMorrison 17y ago
On my Linux machine, not even a server but just a desktop, there are 111 running processes. There's room for growth in multi-core yet.
- tl 17y agoHow many of those processes are small / simple enough that you can fit dozens of them on a single core with no performance loss? On my dual-core box, top shows very few programs registering 1% of CPU usage. Of those, only firefox needs it often.
- wmf 17y agoDon't you mean there are 111 sleeping processes? It's unlikely that a desktop would have so many runnable processes.
- JulianMorrison 17y agoAh, my use of "running" was misleading. That's just a crude line count of the "ps ax" listing. (And I probably counted the header line - d'oh!) Yes, most are sleeping.