Summary: | some applications (firefox, evolution, gnome-panel, gnome-session, nautilus) spawn multiple child processes | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Chris Fairles <chris.fairles> |
Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | minor | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350103.html | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Chris Fairles
2005-06-17 10:45:38 UTC
These are not acutally different processes, but multiple threads of the same process. If you try this command: ps -o user,nlwp,args ww --pid $(pgrep -d, -f firefox) And look at the NLWP column, you will see the number of lightweight processes (threads on linux) is >1 (7 in my case). Each of those threads shares the same memory. So, you don't have 7 * 86MB in use, you only have 1 * 86 MB in use. |