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Hello,

> It seems that those kdeinit processes are actually your KDE
> applications.

Not all of them - most big applications ( like konqueror ) don't start
as kdeinit but have their own binaries. kdeinit seems to be mainly for
KDE services, applets and the like.

> According to this [http://www.suse.de/~bastian/Export/linking.txt,
> section 4], KDE starts one process (kdeinit) and all other KDE
> applications are created from it by fork() and dlopen() to eliminate
> exec overhead. So all the KDE applications are called kdeinit.

Makes some sort of sense for loads of small, short-lived processes.

have fun
Michael

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