Sax Maniac's Journal: GNOME leaking daemons ARRRRGH!

This is one mains reasons I hate GNOME, but I still use it because I hate it less than KDE4. It loves to start up little daemons all over the place implcitly and then leave them hanging. When you log out, you get a pile of left over daemons:

tringali 2829 1 1 17:28 gnome-panel
tringali 2830 1 0 17:28 /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id=desktop-login --description=GNOME Login
tringali 2864 1 0 17:28 /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=36
tringali 2875 1 0 17:28 /bin/sh /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
tringali 2876 2875 0 17:28 \_ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
tringali 2883 2876 0 17:28 \_ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start

But wait, there's more! Log out another time, and you get more!

tringali 2829 1 0 17:28 gnome-panel
tringali 2830 1 0 17:28 /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id=desktop-login --description=GNOME Login
tringali 2864 1 0 17:28 /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=36
tringali 2875 1 0 17:28 /bin/sh /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
tringali 2876 2875 0 17:28 \_ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
tringali 2883 2876 0 17:28 \_ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
tringali 3251 1 0 17:29 /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id=desktop-login --description=GNOME Login
tringali 3277 1 0 17:29 /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=32
tringali 3293 1 0 17:29 /bin/sh /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
tringali 3296 3293 0 17:29 \_ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start

It's common to find thousands of these bastards floating on headless machines we log into at work. Yep, run "gcalctool" remotely, and you too can leave piles of processes running, eventually grinding the machine to a halt.