Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Ann Smith
We recently moved a java app and some MQ clients and servers to linux/390 for testing. Folks here are used to Solaris and are confused by the number of processes that show up when you issue 'ps -ef'. Many more than they are used to. If you ask Jeeves, there is info on the threading model linux

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:37, Ann Smith wrote: We recently moved a java app and some MQ clients and servers to linux/390 for testing. Folks here are used to Solaris and are confused by the number of processes that show up when you issue 'ps -ef'. Many more than they are used to. If you ask

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
New threads and processes are both created via a call to clone(). The former uses flags that tell clone not to duplicate everything (like virtual memory). The new thread or process gets a unique PID. In the 2.6 there'll be something called a process group ID and a new threading model known as

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Fargusson.Alan
is at home, so I can't see it right now. -Original Message- From: Ann Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Many many processes with LINUX We recently moved a java app and some MQ clients and servers to linux/390 for testing

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 22:16, Fargusson.Alan wrote: I think that the reason that the threads don't show up in ps on Solaris that 'lightweight' processes are implemented in the library at user level. The kernel does not know about them. This was the case a one time anyway. Modern solaris

Re: Many many processes with LINUX

2003-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Ferguson, Neale wrote: New threads and processes are both created via a call to clone(). The former uses flags that tell clone not to duplicate everything (like virtual memory). The new thread or process gets a unique PID. In the 2.6 there'll be something called a process