Logged in twice?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> This aft, I notice the HD was flashing all the time and I wanted to see
> what kept it busy.
> 
> The first thing I noticed with "top", is that there are two users. Issued
> the command "users" and saw my user name twice. Looks like I'm logged in
> twice. Why is that?

You are probably running 2 shells.  What does the "w" command tell you?

> The only process I couldn't figure out that was at the top of "top" was
> multiload-apple(t-2). "free" shows that buffers are increasing by 8 KB
> each time the light goes on. This seems somewhat related to Firefox
> running. It persist some time after it's closed, than stops.

Its a part of the gnome-applets RPM.

> Why are the buffers increasing when I don't use Firefox? (It's just open.)
> 
> Note: I have the System Monitor applet installed and the page on its
> configuration is:
> 
> http://gnome.gr/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/documentation_gnome-applets-multiload.pdf
> 
> but multiload appears nowhere in the document. In case this would help.
> 


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