I am amazed that you only have 4. I usually have dozens going. On Nov 22, 2017 4:16 PM, "James Mcphee" wrote: > Chrome runs each tab in a seperate process, and the same for plugins, etc, > though sometimes those are shared. If you run ps -ef instead of top and > get the parent processid, they'd likely share a common parent. You can > organize the output with H. ps -efH and it'll group it in a tree format > based on parents, etc. > > As for why you have multiple sessions, tty/# is the console, pts/# are > pseudo terminals. Either ssh, gnome terms, whatever. Depending on which > distro you're running, it may or may not show your sessions. Systemd has a > better handle on logins, and will usually only show your gnome session and > hide any terms, while an older system that has to depend on utmp will do > it's best to give you "who" info, and that will lead to multiple entries. > Here's the thing, though. In this case SystemD is causing who to lie to > you. There are pty's and they're capable of doing things and the thing > intended to tell you, who, w, or whatever, is not telling you. But I'll > stop before I get any further along that tangent. > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:44 PM, wrote: > >> Why does ps -ef show four entries for chrome? >> >> top - 15:39:19 up 117 days, 6:18, 3 users, load average: 0.52, 0.53, >> 0.40 >> Tasks: 254 total, 2 running, 252 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> %Cpu(s): 4.5 us, 1.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 94.0 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, >> 0.0 st >> KiB Mem: 8056428 total, 6113388 used, 1943040 free, 261496 buffers >> KiB Swap: 1951740 total, 1479580 used, 472160 free. 2132628 cached >> Mem >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ >> COMMAND >> 1954 joe 20 0 4950656 262716 63456 S 22.5 3.3 8718:50 >> plasma-desktop >> 1180 root 20 0 406848 142360 91556 S 2.0 1.8 1731:43 Xorg >> 8319 joe 20 0 2536552 57272 40736 S 1.3 0.7 0:04.20 kwrite >> 8265 joe 20 0 1523732 198328 0 S 0.7 2.5 204:22.04 chrome >> 8385 joe 20 0 500772 39968 30976 S 0.7 0.5 0:00.32 >> konsole >> 8411 joe 20 0 25068 3020 2412 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.10 top >> 1947 joe 20 0 3271824 111492 13264 S 0.3 1.4 699:09.56 kwin >> 20472 joe 20 0 2773088 3460 0 S 0.3 0.0 342:53.07 chrome >> 23926 joe 20 0 1698316 146268 0 S 0.3 1.8 252:24.63 chrome >> 24818 joe 20 0 1681216 194792 0 S 0.3 2.4 205:45.48 chrome >> 26613 joe 20 0 1441312 305556 6452 S 0.3 3.8 117:09.59 chrome >> 1 root 20 0 33920 3244 1800 S 0.0 0.0 0:10.59 init >> >> == Also, why does "who" show 3 users when I am the only user logged on: >> t420: who >> joe tty8 2017-07-28 09:20 (:0) >> joe pts/8 2017-07-28 09:20 (:0) >> joe pts/7 2017-11-22 15:42 (:0) >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >