Darac Marjal wrote: > It is perfectly normal to have many processes. It's also, however, > possible to have "too many" processes? How many is too many? This is > where Linux's concept of "load average" comes into play. Calculating > "load average" is a complex task, but the numbers SHOULD come out that a > load average equal to the number of CPUs is a perfectly-loaded system. > Run "uptime" and you'll see the load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 > minutes. If these numbers are high, you have a busy system.
Thanks for the info. Today I did not have any problems, but I was used to have at most 100 processes. Then, when the number of processes increased about 200, that was usually some bug (e.g. in some web browser plug-in), eventually requiring to kill X11 or, even, reset the computer. Lately, I have usually more than 300 processes listed in gkrellm (337 right now), and sometimes the system stops to respond (with high disk activity). ««« hudson@musix:~$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 435 412 22 0 2 74 -/+ buffers/cache: 334 100 Swap: 1057 143 914 hudson@musix:~$ uptime 13:38:58 up 2:09, 1 user, load average: 0,11, 0,20, 0,28 »»» -- Hudson Lacerda -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52cd718d.7050...@yahoo.com.br