[ale] mozilla

[John Wells]

That makes more sense.  So, from top, is there a way
to indentify that two processes are actually 1,
threads or LWPs and 2, that they share resources?

Thanks,
John

--- Danny Cox <danscox at mindspring.com> wrote:
> John,
> 
> On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 07:26, John Wells wrote:
> > Anyway, I was playing around with top this morning
> and
> > noticed that with one mozilla window up I actually
> > have 5! mozilla processes running with a total
> > resident memory size of 134970 kb.  I won't even
> ask
> > why the hell a web browser requires 5 processes at
> > half the size of my phyical memory (but if you
> have an
> > opinion pass it on ;-)).
> 
> 	You don't.  There 5 threads, all of which share the
> same memory, but ps
> doesn't know this, and so reports each as using that
> much.  That's just
> how threads work under Linux.  They're actually
> seperate processes that
> share items (file descriptors, memory, ...).
> 
> 	My mozilla(-bin) is currently using 13024 K of mem.
>  Large, but not too
> bad (sheesh! who remembers when 65k was all the
> addresses ya got? ;-).
> 
> -- 
> kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that
> preserves the
> medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
> 
> Danny
> 
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