multiple instances of amarokapp

[Paul Cifarelli]

Hi Colin,

Absolutely normal.

Of course, how many will usually depend on what engine and even on how that 
engine is configured.

So, for example, lets say you are using the helix engine, configured to use 
alsa for output and using the Realplayer 10 libraries. Then you'll show 1 
main amarokapp and 2 child processes, each with an additional thread.  Since 
linux represents threads with an entry in the process table, that's 7 
entries, which is what you show.

The 2 child processes are used to create crossfades, if you were wondering...

Paul

On Sunday 25 June 2006 16:31, Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tend to leave amarok running in the background on my system, even
> when I am not listening to music. But just now I noticed that there
> are *seven* instances of amarokapp running, using upwards of 800MB of
> virtual memory. Here is a screenshot from the gnome system monitor:
>
> http://lim.nl/amarokapp.png
>
> As you can see, they were all started at the same time on Friday.
>
> Is this normal?
>
> I am running v1.4.0 under FC5.
>
> Thanks...