Anyone know what the gnome-name-service does? THere's no info on my onboard documentation. It's part of the gnome-bin.deb packages Killing seems to be without ill affect on my stand alone laptop,
MarvS ============================= 4:41pm up 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 42 processes: 40 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.8% user, 0.6% system, 0.0% nice, 98.4% idle PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 441 marv 9 0 14660 14M 8392 S 0 0.0 23.2 0:04 communicator 303 root 16 0 7688 5448 2200 S 0 0.8 8.7 0:36 XF86_SVGA 331 marv 9 0 4476 4476 3096 S 0 0.0 7.1 0:00 panel 330 marv 9 0 3480 3480 1904 S 0 0.0 5.5 0:01 wish 429 marv 10 0 3460 3460 2752 R 0 0.0 5.5 0:00 gnome-termin 489 marv 9 0 3400 3324 2820 S 0 0.0 5.3 0:00 communicator 340 marv 9 0 3192 3192 2576 S 0 0.0 5.1 0:00 gen_util_app 306 nobody 9 0 2476 2444 1856 S 0 0.0 3.9 0:02 xfstt 329 marv 9 0 2412 2412 1672 S 0 0.0 3.8 0:01 sawmill 504 root 14 0 1676 1676 764 R 0 0.6 2.6 0:00 top 338 marv 9 0 1292 1292 1080 S 0 0.0 2.0 0:00 gnome-name-service <<<<< 433 root 9 0 1280 1280 988 S 0 0.0 2.0 0:00 bash 431 marv 9 0 1268 1268 964 S 0 0.0 2.0 0:00 bash 178 mail 8 0 1168 1168 988 S 0 0.0 1.8 0:00 exim 293 marv 9 0 1092 1088 900 S 0 0.0 1.7 0:00 bash 153 root 9 0 1072 1072 444 S 0 0.0 1.7 0:00 klogd 294 marv 9 0 944 940 768 S 0 0.0 1.5 0:00 startx 308 marv 8 0 932 928 776 S 0 0.0 1.4 0:00 .xsession 250 root 8 0 908 904 752 S 0 0.0 1.4 0:00 pppd 302 marv 9 0 836 836 700 S 0 0.0 1.3 0:00 xinit
