[ale] firefox oddity

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

Ha!

Check pstree and you'll see firefox loads a zillion child process and
most are not named so they get called "firefox". 

On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 14:35 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> I just did a periodic check of the system via <htop> and discovered
> several instances of firefox running -- each with its own PID.
> 
> So I killed firefox and all those PIDs disappeared from the list.
> But when I restarted firefox they all came back and brought their
> siblings! According to htop there are 31 instances of firefox running.
> Except for the PID and the runtime, all the lines are the same:
> 
> PID  USER  PRI   NI VIRT    SHR  CPU%  MEM% TIME+   Command
> 1712  me   20    0  1795M 55800  0.0   4.9  0:11.9  /usr/lib64/firefox
> 
> Obviously there is a problem somewhere as the listed processes would be
> using 152% of memory, which clearly isn't happening.
> 
> htop reports current memory usage as 1588/7711 MB.
> 
> Anybody have a clue as to what is going on here?
> 
> Sean
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