[luau] too many processes?

[burnst001 at hawaii.rr.com]

I'm running redhat 7.3, with mostly default workstation settings. when I run
ps -e, there are a bunch of redundant (?) processes, about 8 nfsd, 15 kdeinit,
10 httpd, 6 mingetty. This seems screwy to me, do any of these sound reasonable,
or is something weird happening to make my daemons multiply?

The only ones I can guess at are the kdeinits. Whenever I install an rpm from
konqueror, it starts up kpackage successfully and does what I need to do, but
once I close all the kpackage windows there is a dialog box there saying "konqueror
was unable to initialize kpackage" or something very similar. So maybe konqueror
spawns a kdeinit every time I install an rpm, and it hangs at some point (though
actually after kpackage gets going)? 

Drowsy Dave