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To: Stormweaver who wrote (16416)	5/14/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: David MacNeil	Read Replies (3) of 64865

<<A UNIX workstation is great because there's 30 processes running in the background that are taking away CPU cycles and memory from applications that I'm trying to run on my desktop. Sounds like an efficient desktop to me (not) ! It's bloatware.>> Actually, in Solaris, processes that are inactive go to sleep. So there is no consumption of CPU cycles. If you look at a listing of processes (in Solaris, 'ps -elf') you'll see that most are sleeping. They are awakened when needed by an interrupt call, etc. And if any memory that the sleeping process has in use is needed, the process and its data are swapped out to free the memory. So there really isn't any significant consumption of CPU/memory by system or application daemons.

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