[Adragontattoo]

Kubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake

well over the last few days I have worked at getting Lm-sensors up and working towards setting up Samba.

Gave up on Samba for a bit and went back to just using Kubuntu. Booted up and started browsing around the web, Noticed that the system was running impossibly slow and checked taskmanager to see what was causing a hang.

108 running processes

That cant possibly be right.

I am not at the system to tell you what processes are actually running but does anyone have a rough ballpark of what it should be at? Im used to Windows where 32 is right with nothing but AVG running.

[Evnas]

I have 27 processes running right now, including Firefox and Compiz

[su root]

I'm running 97 right now, but I have a lot of stuff open.

If you want fewer processes, use a different window manager, gnome and KDE like to start up a few dozen processes each.

Honestly, it's not the number of processes that determines how bogged down a system is, it's what they're doing. Debian systems have a lot of hardware helper processes, and some unnecessary ones, depending on what you are using.

If you are seeing slow performance, check what process is eating all the CPU or memory. A normal desktop system should have load of no more than 0.05 when idle, and no swap usage. If you are digging into swap, see what's eating your memory

[Adragontattoo]

well reloaded Kubuntu last night and evidently screwed my backup (unable to access the backup drive, gonna make a new thread about it).

Once I get that fixed I will update the system back to current and check running processes.