Actually, I believe (although this is possibly a bit off track :) that Linux threads *are* processes. The Linux implementation of processes is lightweight enough that there is no requirement to have a lighter weight version (stuff like: it doesn't copy memory unless it needs to - just uses the same memory for both child and parent). Rob McAuliffe -----Original Message----- From: Pier P. Fumagalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2001 6:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why so many processes? Richard Draucker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently upgraded to RH7 and downloaded jdk1.3.1. > After starting Tomcat I find about a half dozen native thread processes > running. Is this normal? Or, is there a fix? It's normal... Those are not processes but threads (which under Linux are shown as they were processes)... Damn Linux. Pier
