# Number of processes and memory usage

**URL:** https://community.freefem.org/t/number-of-processes-and-memory-usage/1551
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 23, 2022, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/number-of-processes-and-memory-usage/1551 "2022-02-23T12:21:40Z")
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### Author: ![aszaboa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/aszaboa/32/2918_2.png) [@aszaboa](https://community.freefem.org/u/aszaboa)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/number-of-processes-and-memory-usage/1551/16 "2022-05-20T13:16:33Z")

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Regarding the additional sleeping processes, changing openmpi to mpich helped; see [this](https://community.freefem.org/t/sorting-out-memory-leakage/1745/15) post for more detail.

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