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lately i have spotted that for no apparent reason there can be as many as 10+ python processes running, eating up ram and basically slowing down the whole tablet.

i have yet to figure out what the cause can be tho...

so, has anyone else seen this?
 
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The python pre-loader (python launcher) can do that because they stay open even after you closed the program. So, if you load up MyTube, Quick Clip Viewer, PyGTKEditor, etc. a bunch of python processes will remain in memory even after being closed. Are they all like 1-3 MB?
 
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more like 4MB...

i could have sworn i had given python-launcher the boot...
 
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The Advanced Power Plugin is also python based ( or at least one of the two parts ).
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true, but this have only started to show up recently (that i know off), and i have had AP installed for quite a while now.

still, i think it may well be a leftover from python-launcher, as i think i ones spotted it having multiple processes going. but at the time it was supposedly disabled (altho still installed).

sadly, apt-get purge gives me a error about missing command, or something like that, so i cant really tell it to purge any leftovers related to python-launcher...
 
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try 'ps uxaw', maybe you'll get some more info as to what's going on
 

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Is python launcher really that bad?
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Originally Posted by tso View Post
sadly, apt-get purge gives me a error about missing command, or something like that, so i cant really tell it to purge any leftovers related to python-launcher...
I use this quite often (saw it somewhere here in ITt):

Code:
 
### View orphan files:
dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }'

### Clean up the files:
#dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }')
hope it helps.
 
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seems i found the problem program, mcalendar...
 

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### View orphan files:
dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }'
These are not orphaned files, these are packages which have been removed but still their configuration is kept in case of reinstall. It's usually a good idea to leave these conf files as they are small.
 
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