KDE processes

[Anjo]

Couple of small questions

1. When I run KDE System Guard and look at the process table, I see multiple instances (if thats what they are) of the same process. Like one Mozilla browser shows up with 6 entries of mozilla-bin, each with a different PID. I also see multiple shells running, one I know is from a login script to start xscreensaver (in sh). Can someone explain to me why this is?
2. When doing 'who' at a prompt, I see multiple logins of myself, not sure why this is easier...besides one for the shell prompt I opened to run the command in and one from logging in. At the moment there are 4 users all with my username and all I'm doing is running Mozilla, Gaim, KDE System Guard and a Shell prompt.

Any explanations would be helpful

[scott_R]

answer 1 not a good excuse, but mozilla is running, you likely have more than one window open, or more than one tab. Also, Mozilla runs in several "peices", as does other software. Sometimes this is simply to even out the amount of time each peice gets to use the cpu. This helps keep programs from locking up because one peice isn't getting the information it expected. While that one peice can play around trying to figure out it's situation, the other bits can continue to work.

answer 2 If you have multiple virtual desktops running, (kde starts with four by default) you'll need virtual terminals to run those, although they may not look like they are being used.