Logged in twice?
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Jul 3 00:48:08 UTC 2009
gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> This aft, I notice the HD was flashing all the time and I wanted to see
> what kept it busy.
>
> The first thing I noticed with "top", is that there are two users. Issued
> the command "users" and saw my user name twice. Looks like I'm logged in
> twice. Why is that?
You are probably running 2 shells. What does the "w" command tell you?
> The only process I couldn't figure out that was at the top of "top" was
> multiload-apple(t-2). "free" shows that buffers are increasing by 8 KB
> each time the light goes on. This seems somewhat related to Firefox
> running. It persist some time after it's closed, than stops.
Its a part of the gnome-applets RPM.
> Why are the buffers increasing when I don't use Firefox? (It's just open.)
>
> Note: I have the System Monitor applet installed and the page on its
> configuration is:
>
> http://gnome.gr/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/documentation_gnome-applets-multiload.pdf
>
> but multiload appears nowhere in the document. In case this would help.
>
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