| It looks to me like what you have is actually one process and seven | *threads*. A thread is essentially the same process running at a | different location, but using the same memory. ps, top, etc. don't know | about threads, so they appear as a seperate process. | | Bottom line: StarOffice is really only using 32 meg, but has seven threads | working in there. | | I'm guessing, though. Can anyone confirm this? | | Greg
You are correct. My understanding is there are six threads running off the main process. Top reports them all as separate processes. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
