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Subject: Re: Could someone explain why thunderbird creates so many processes
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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.


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