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Weekend Open Forum: How many processes are running right now?
Not long ago, it was fairly common for power users to reference Windows' process list as if it were a barometer for the machine's speed. I can recall forum debates between members bragging about how few processes their system ran at startup, and I remember being adamant about ensuring that only essential items were running on my system. In that same vein, it was also common for folks to seek and destroy non-critical Windows services for speed gains.
In an age of hexa-core CPUs, dirt cheap RAM and flash storage, it seems those concerns have faded from enthusiasts' consideration. My relatively modest PC runs north of 100 processes daily (many of which are Chrome tabs) without breaking a sweat and I can increase or decrease that figure by 50 without noticing a difference in usable performance. How many processes are you currently running and do you pay attention to them anymore? Did you ever?
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189 at the moment. Running Linux so processes philosophy will be a little different (and slightly more liberal) to Windows. See screenshot: http://imgur.com/U0X0t
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#3 i dont think so d:.. you just run windows without audio and close all the svhost.exe procces'?
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3DCGMODELER said:
27 processes....
I let 5 of those processes run, because i am nice....
mike
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I currently have 60 running on my laptop, and using 52% of my 2GB RAM.
The i7 920 I'm currently testing is running only 39 processes, and 17% of its 6GB available RAM.
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I'm at 100, with 5 chrome tabs and a few other programs running. My secondary computer with W7 running F@H has only 50.
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Quote: red1776 said:Quote: Guest said:
23 proc
u dont really need more than that
Indeed. Unless you want to....ya know...do stuff.
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Might still be running Windows XP, in which case you could run less than 20 and still do everything.it was a joke, not a documentary:p
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With this window open I'm at 79 this is on fresh reboot.
I can easily break 100
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at bootup 40+; now after fewhours of surfing 54.
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I'm pulling 47 normally.
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With this window open I'm at 79 this is on fresh reboot.Pfffttt, so what! Top this:
I can easily break 100
I have 437 processes running, not sure why so much. -
I've got 39 and 36 processes running in my XP desktop and laptop.
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Generally desktops have less processes running when compared with the notebooks (not counting in XP here), so I think we should divide all notebook processes with the factor of 2, before posting the final number :p
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43 processes on Windows XP on my work computer.
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My work computer bounces between 50-60 processes. I try to keep if fairly low because it gets rather bogged down with what I need to do at work - graphic design - and I'm still trying to talked my boss into an upgrade .......
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23 process? thats increible but maybe you are killing alot of "necesary process" i can have without antivirus 44 or 43 not less
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64 on Win 7 x64.
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Windows 7 x86
33 after cold boot.
36 idle
40 with google chrome(4 tabs)
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61 Processes
AVG -> 12
Browser -> 4
Nvidia -> 5
Other Apps -> 4
Windows 07, x64
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Running Processes?
My old Dell 3.0 Ghz P4 running XP Pro, only Chrome open... 59 processes
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