Ernie Schroder wrote:
> This may be a dumb question, but can someone explain why one instance
> of MozillaFirebird with only one tab open starts 5 processes each
> using about 25 megs of ram?
These are probably not processes, but "threads" ("light weight
processes"), and they are all taking the same 25 MB.
> 10187 ernie 15 0 25064 24m 14m S 0.0 4.9 0:01.93
> MozillaFirebird
> 10190 ernie 15 0 25064 24m 14m S 0.0 4.9 0:00.00
> MozillaFirebird
> 10191 ernie 15 0 25064 24m 14m S 0.0 4.9 0:00.01
> MozillaFirebird
> 10192 ernie 15 0 25064 24m 14m S 0.0 4.9 0:00.00
> MozillaFirebird
> 10193 ernie 15 0 25064 24m 14m S 0.0 4.9 0:00.00
> MozillaFirebird
>
> Is there a way to see what these extra processes are doing other than
> killing them one by one?
"strace -p 10187" would show what process/thread 10187 is doing.
Regards...
Michael
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