Nautilus processes

[John Mahowald]

On Mar 29, 2005 5:43 AM, Артур Сибагатуллин <ArtSib at uniqueics.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I've got a question about Nautilus.
> Why after starting X there are many Nautilus processes which take a lot of
> memory. For example:
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 11710 turich    15   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:02.89 nautilus
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 11711 tu
> 11710 turich    15   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:02.89 nautilus
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> ...
> 11722 turich    18   0 37836  21m  20m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.00 nautilus
> --sm-client-id 11c0a80084000111209531400000113030005 --screen 0
> 1
> 
> What for this processes? Are they all necessary? And if no how to kill them?
> 

Notice all use the same memory and so are clones sharing resources.
You can termiate them with a system monitor such as top. Not sure why
you have so many, how many nautilus windows do you have open?