I will just point out that under 2.6, you don't see separate threads, unless you ask to see them. Under 2.4 and earlier, threads were just light weight processes and were always shown.
Therefore the number of processes you will see under 2.4 kernels and 2.6 kernels is different! On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:20, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:32 +1300, yuri wrote: > > httpd and kdeinit are multi threaded apps that run a zillion instances > > to make them more reponsive. > > To clarify > > Many programs have multiple parts that can run at the same time [1]. In the case of kdeinit and httpd, these multiple parts *are* actually difference processes, not threads. kdeinit is the environment setup program (or something like that, i could be wrong) for KDE, and when some kde apps are started, kdeinit is run to create the process. I notice programs that start automatically are mostly run by kdeinit. Although on my system, they appear like kmix [kdeinit] kio_file [kdeinit] etc. It is normal if you use KDE (note that most of the memory used is shared too). httpd (in apache 1.x or apache 2 with prefork-mpm) uses multiple processes to service http requests, one for each incoming connections with a few waiting for new connections. If you don't need a webserver on the machine, perhaps you should turn it off. That may or may not help. Later Lee Begg
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