I Fount in the top screen, some duplicate proces such as: mingetty kdm automount pdflush Other proces, is'nt duplicated, but I do'nt know what is: scsi_eh_0 scsi_eh_1 It seems as the network interface, with a scsi device. The screen of top is: Tasks: 85 total, 1 running, 83 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 95.0% id, 2.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 516456k total, 392428k used, 124028k free, 41512k buffers Swap: 1036152k total, 120k used, 1036032k free, 167392k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3115 root 15 0 99900 12m 4760 S 1.0 2.4 0:36.01 X 2130 root 16 0 1892 616 444 D 0.3 0.1 0:00.86 syslog-ng 2134 root 16 0 1656 564 372 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.36 klogd 4005 root 16 0 2172 1116 848 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.33 top 1 root 16 0 724 280 240 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.45 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 events/0 5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 khelper 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kblockd/0 9 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 121 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 122 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 pdflush 124 root 16 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 123 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kswapd0 330 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 377 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kpsmoused 746 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0 749 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 750 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 806 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 reiserfs/0 910 root 11 -4 1760 548 348 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.43 udevd 1299 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 1329 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kgameportd 1367 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd_event 2092 root 16 0 1516 508 436 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 acpid 2131 messageb 16 0 3420 1012 744 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.63 dbus-daemon 2170 root 17 0 1792 692 568 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 resmgrd 2201 root 16 0 4320 2884 1456 S 0.0 0.6 0:02.24 hald 2271 nobody 16 0 1560 424 340 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 portmap 2279 root 16 0 2756 1232 1092 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 NetworkManagerD 2297 root 21 0 1816 612 540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 hald-addon-acpi 2301 root 16 0 11956 1900 1664 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.62 NetworkManager 2772 root 16 0 2316 1196 540 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 pcscd 2790 root 16 0 1796 704 580 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 cron 2939 root 25 0 4956 1212 880 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.13 sshd 2954 root 15 0 4580 1344 1060 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 smpppd 3036 root 16 0 1664 688 568 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 automount 3038 root 16 0 1660 668 556 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 automount 3054 root 15 0 1856 784 664 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 dhcdbd 3055 root 16 0 2112 1068 772 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 dhclient 3063 root 17 0 2812 792 668 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 kdm 3089 lp 16 0 6840 3080 1360 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.28 cupsd 3119 root 17 0 3556 1232 980 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 kdm 3121 root 18 0 1956 644 572 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.11 mingetty 3122 root 18 0 1956 628 556 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty Thanks