Kinda confused [Solved]

[chasha420]

So...I was doin some cmdline fu & this just occured to me by random

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 # uptime 
 21:52:06 up 1 day, 13:28, 11 users,  load average: 1.05, 0.91, 0.82

11 users? How is dat even possible when it's just my account 'irenicus' & 'root'.

So the next thing reveals something crazy

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# users
irenicus irenicus irenicus irenicus irenicus irenicus irenicus irenicus irenicus irenicus irenicus

^ If you count the # of times my username is repeated above you'll see that it's 11 Lol.

So the uptime command wasn't lying at all! It was me myself and I hahaha

I wonder if that's a bug or an expected behaviour of us linux nerds. I wish I could make a copy of myself like that in real life...just like agent Smith

[dave_64]

I have 12 users!!! After closing all but one of the terminals (including the ones running in a minimized state), I got it back down to three. Are you running several terminals?

[sabayonino]

simply type

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$ who

to see wich user(s) is/are running

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 $ uptime 
22:16:45 up 15:02,  3 users,  load average: 2,89, 3,19, 3,16

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$ who
sabayonino    :0           2013-05-21 07:15
sabayonino    pts/1        2013-05-21 07:15 (:0)
sabayonino    pts/2        2013-05-21 12:48 (:0)

[chasha420]

I have 12 users!!! After closing all but one of the terminals (including the ones running in a minimized state), I got it back down to three. Are you running several terminals?

Ya you're right, I was running a screen session with multiple instances...for coding mainly & according to @sabayonino the who command revealed those instances.

Thanks guys