Poll: How Many Processes Are You Running?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769263

by jsares • 17 years ago

2 7 17 years ago

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jsares3• 17 years ago

I'm running Windows XP SP3 on my work notebook and I've tweaked the services and disabled all the startup processes. With Chrome(5 tabs), Outlook, Digsby, and Task Manger I've got 23 processes/304 threads running.

yan• 17 years ago

  bump:~ yan$ ps waux|wc -l
        69

Minus the header line, so 68.

Edit: This poll excludes me.

jsares3• 17 years ago

How did it exclude you?

icey• 17 years ago

Because there is no option for 61-69

mbrubeck• 17 years ago

Many more since I started using Chromium as my everyday browser.

DanielStraight• 17 years ago

145

Poll: How Many Processes Are You Running?

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