Re: [OT] StarOffice memory usage: 7 processes!

[Greg Baker <ggbaker@sfu.ca>]

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 25454 rickm      0   0 32676  31M 24772 S       0  0.0 12.7   0:00
> soffice.bin
> 25444 rickm     20   0 32676  31M 24772 R       0  0.0 12.7   1:12
> soffice.bin
> 25455 rickm      0   0 32676  31M 24772 S       0  0.0 12.7   0:00
> soffice.bin
> 25456 rickm      1   0 32676  31M 24772 S       0  0.3 12.7   0:00
> soffice.bin
> 25458 rickm      0   0 32676  31M 24772 S       0  0.0 12.7   0:00
> soffice.bin
> 25459 rickm      0   0 32676  31M 24772 S       0  0.0 12.7   0:00
> soffice.bin
> 25462 rickm      0   0 32676  31M 24772 S       0  0.0 12.7   0:00
> soffice.bin

It looks to me like what you have is actually one process and seven
*threads*.  A thread is essentially the same process running at a
different location, but using the same memory.  ps, top, etc. don't know
about threads, so they appear as a seperate process. 

Bottom line: StarOffice is really only using 32 meg, but has seven threads
working in there.

I'm guessing, though.  Can anyone confirm this?

Greg

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