Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:29:34 +1030 From: Shane Ambler <BSD@ShaneWare.Biz> To: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>, Fedora Community Users Support <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>, FreeBSD Users <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Could someone explain why thunderbird creates so many processes per folder Message-ID: <550503A6.8090907@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <5504C179.5040202@gmail.com> References: <5504C179.5040202@gmail.com>
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On 15/03/2015 09:47, jd1008 wrote: > For example: > > $ lsof | grep Sent > thunderbi 3165 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 > 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf > Gecko_IOT 3165 3192 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 > 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf > Socket 3165 3193 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 > 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf > JS 3165 3194 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 > 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf > JS 3165 3195 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 > 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf > Hang 3165 3196 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 > 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf > Cache2 3165 3197 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 > 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf > Timer 3165 3198 jd 37u REG 8,19 3107745 > 62260168 /sdb3/home/jd/.thunderbird/jd1008/Mail/pop.googlemail.com/Sent.msf It doesn't - your just interpreting the data wrong. The second column is the PID - a unique number for each process and they are all the same in your list indicating that one copy of thinderbird is running. What you are seeing is all the files that it currently has open. If you try ps aux | grep thunder you will find one entry. -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler
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