Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-14 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 8 January 2014 13:40, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > Hi. > > Sometimes, the system raises a lot of processes, causing considerable > delay to respond any input action. This moment, there are 312 processes > running (in a personal laptop - Debian testing). In your case it's probably mem

Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/9/2014 6:52 AM, Jeff Bauer wrote: > On 01/08/2014 10:41 AM, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: >> hudson@musix:~$ free -m >> total used free sharedbuffers >> cached >> Mem: 435412 22 0 2 74 >> -/+ buffe

Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2014, 07:52:55 schrieb Jeff Bauer: > On 01/08/2014 10:41 AM, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > > hudson@musix:~$ free -m > > > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > > > Mem: 435412 22 0

Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-09 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 01/08/2014 10:41 AM, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: hudson@musix:~$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 435412 22 0 2 74 -/+ buffers/cache:334100 Swap: 1057

Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014, 11:40:36 schrieb Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda: > Hi. Hi Hudson, > Sometimes, the system raises a lot of processes, causing considerable > delay to respond any input action. This moment, there are 312 processes > running (in a personal laptop - Debian testing). Here i

Re: Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-08 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
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

Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-08 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Darac Marjal writes: > > > One process will be given some time on a processor and then, after > > > a period of time or when that process yields control of the > > > processor > > > > Is not the process that yelds, it's the kernel that assigns the CPU to > > another process, as you correc

Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-08 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Darac Marjal writes: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 11:40:36AM -0200, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda > wrote: Sorry, but this paragraph needs a couple of "label" corrections > "Cooperative Multitasking". Sorry, the label here is "Preemptive" (*), according to your own expaination :). > One

Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:40:14PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Darac Marjal writes: > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 11:40:36AM -0200, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda > wrote: > > Sorry, but this paragraph needs a couple of "label" corrections > > > "Cooperative Multitasking". > > Sorry, the

Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 11:40:36AM -0200, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > Hi. > > Sometimes, the system raises a lot of processes, causing considerable > delay to respond any input action. This moment, there are 312 processes > running (in a personal laptop - Debian testing). Here is a part