Opensuse 13.2 process count inflation

Hi,

Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this in, if it is not, please can the Mods move it ( or tell me where I should have posted it).

I’ve installed opensuse 13.2 on some new hardware
Intel i5-4430
8GB Ram
2x2TB HDD
1X1TB HDD

After the boot process is complete I have approx 272 process’ running and a ( 15 minute) load average of about 0.28
After 4 days (when I was away, so the machine was on but unused) the number of process’ had increased to 775 and the load average up to 0.58

Memory usage has also increased from 6399364 to 7875340 (according to top)

For a machine that’s doing nothing, I consider a 15 minute load average of 0.58 to be excessive and this would appear to be linked to the number of spawned processes with an almost trebling of the number of processes (admittedly almost all are sleeping).

I did notice something similar on Opensuse 13.1 on my laptop after I left it on for a month, but never investigated that.

Has anyone had a similar problem

The main processes I have running over and above the base system are
Apache
Mysql
NFS
Postfix
Virtualbox (but no VM running)
and the KDE desktop that came with openSuse 13.2

TIA

I assume you have at least glanced through that list of processes. Nothing specific there like many processes of the same program?

On Fri 13 Mar 2015 11:26:01 AM CDT, gvheard wrote:

Hi,

Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this in, if it is not,
please can the Mods move it ( or tell me where I should have posted it).

I’ve installed opensuse 13.2 on some new hardware
Intel i5-4430
8GB Ram
2x2TB HDD
1X1TB HDD

After the boot process is complete I have approx 272 process’ running
and a ( 15 minute) load average of about 0.28
After 4 days (when I was away, so the machine was on but unused) the
number of process’ had increased to 775 and the load average up to 0.58

Memory usage has also increased from 6399364 to 7875340 (according to
top)

For a machine that’s doing nothing, I consider a 15 minute load average
of 0.58 to be excessive and this would appear to be linked to the number
of spawned processes with an almost trebling of the number of processes
(admittedly almost all are sleeping).

I did notice something similar on Opensuse 13.1 on my laptop after I
left it on for a month, but never investigated that.

Has anyone had a similar problem

The main processes I have running over and above the base system are
Apache
Mysql
NFS
Postfix
Virtualbox (but no VM running)
and the KDE desktop that came with openSuse 13.2

TIA

Hi
Use the pstree command to see what is spawning what…


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Thanks for that

There’s yet another linux command I didn’t know :frowning: