Weekend Open Forum: How many processes are running right now?

56 processes & I only stop/disable processes that are a problem, in one way or another.

61 at the moment. I don't ever pay attention to it though.

107

37 with a few extra things running, have an habit of killing anything new that crops up when installing programs. Habit came from two rigs past when memory was a problem, not an issue anymore but still like it clean. Too many programs assume I want an extra process as some sort of badge for installing them, most are completely useless anyway.

I use to be a perfectionist about my processes until I got two quad-core xeons and 8GB ram four years ago running on S5000Xvn intel board.

I use to care about my Start Menu and My Document's organization until Windows Vista.

When can I stop caring about filing and cleaning my desktop items before going home?

i have 218 Tabs open and using 8.42GB of Ram right now and my CPU is at 30% usage

No, the "Dormouse" is a character from "Alice in Wonderland", on which the song is loosely based (I spelled it wrong). (Also, sorry for stating the probably obvious).

Meet the "dormouse": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormouse

Everybody hears the words to "White Rabbit" slightly differently, there really isn't a lot of clarity in the original recording. I wonder if the lyrics were included in the original liner notes. These seem about the most "rational" of what a search yielded: http://www.babaganoo.com/songs/white.html

While I typed this response, I had 38 processes running on my mighty eMachines T-5026......Yay

Some people just like to watch.

As somebody who goes way off topic quite often, I'm not criticizing mind you, but that isn't the answer to the question. A "tab" isn't a process. It's a place where you find pornography on a computer with 218 of them open.

Enjoy it while you can. When you get to be my age, you're not even allowed to do that.

Honestly, TechSpot, this topic is no fun. This is the most boring Weekend Open Forum you have done since I started visiting your site daily. Of all the fun and interesting things in the world of computers that we could be talking about, you want to engage your readers in a debate about processes? Come on. A little effort please. This made me depressed. I'll remain depressed for another 5min at the very least. You made that happen. It's all on you.

Agreed! This topic is almost as boring as reading your post. Now I'm depressed too.

do some of you guys realize that having more tabs open does not affect the amount of process running? I am running 100 right now. I think a bunch is from the applications that are on my G19 keyboard! I love this thing! I can watch youtube videos on my keyboard!

Well, I certainly do. This I mentioned in post #49.

When you said "keyboard", at first I thought you meant a musical instrument. If pianos had video screens, nobody would ever practice.

Processes 29 - i try to terminate some, it still annoys me to see those unwanted background processes.

i have 37 just ........................37

Chrome creates a new process for each tab.

97 for me. But I am on a notebook, which have some of annoying drivers running all the time e.g. touch pad, some HP cloud **** (which I usually terminate) + LS + FPR + IRS and Two sets of Graphic drivers i.e. Intel HD + ATI Catalyst etc. Also I noted that FF plug-in container now creates separate process.

Just in case here is the picture as well

http://www.techspot.com/gallery/member-galleries/p4408-wof-aug-13.html

60 with chrome open, but I also have rainmeter, rocketdock and MSI Afterburner running constantly, unlike the 'old' days, this has no effect on my system whatsover.

97 and using 1.42GB/3.00GB of RAM

71 now.