Re: Memory problem

[Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:51:25PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On my PowerBook (2.6.9-powerpc kernel), top says:
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
> 12457 lefevre   16   0  168m  64m  45m S  0.0 25.6 114:31.11 mozilla-bin       
> 12458 lefevre   16   0  168m  64m  45m S  0.0 25.6   0:00.21 mozilla-bin       
> 12459 lefevre   16   0  168m  64m  45m S  0.0 25.6   0:12.63 mozilla-bin       
> 12461 lefevre   16   0  168m  64m  45m S  0.0 25.6   0:25.27 mozilla-bin       
>  1059 lefevre   16   0  168m  64m  45m S  0.0 25.6   0:00.03 mozilla-bin       
> 
> whereas on x86, I get only one instance of mozilla-bin (Mozilla is
> compiled using the same .mozconfig). How can I fix that?

I believe this is due to the lack of NPTL support in the ppc build
of glibc. There are bugs open on that lack. For example:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246689

Because of this, we still use the old linuxthreads, which have several
issues including that the threads all show up as individual processes
and confuse all the procps tools.

	Brad Boyer
	flar@allandria.com