Tomcat process management using ps

[Mark Koscak]

Hello everyone,   I am running Jakarta-Tomcat 3.2   When I have a look at my system processes (ps -aux) after starting tomcat, there are eighteen (18) separate process id's  the associated command being /usr/locak/jdk1.3 Each process apparently consuming 15.4% of memory. 18 * 15.4%  = 277.2%   How can this be?   Also (ok I'm being lazy on this one) when starting tomcat can I prune the instances of the command /usr/local/jdk1.3 to say 8-10 instead of having 18.   Thanks for any input.   Regards Mark