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Re: top processes



on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:05:58AM -0800, Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:10:42PM +0100, William Leese wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > when opening top i see that for some reason there are 4 licq processes 
> > running, whys this when i've only got one licq window open?
> > 
> > top output:
> > --------------------
> > 7628  6408 S      40  0.0  7.9   0:00 licq
> > 13137 wleese     0   0  7628 7628  6408 S      40  0.0  7.9   0:00 licq
> > 13138 wleese     0   0  7628 7628  6408 S      40  0.0  7.9   0:00 licq
> > 13139 wleese     0   0  7628 7628  6408 S      40  0.0  7.9   0:02 licq
> > 13016 wleese     3   0  7008 6856  5900 S       0  4.0  7.1   0:16 kdeinit
> 
> Threaded processes show up as separate processes.  And/or, if licq
> actually has some fork() calls, those will be separate processes.  Not
> to worry...

FWIW, mozilla behaves similarly.

I believe this is brokenness in either top or GNU/Linux's thread
handling, though I'm really blowing smoke and am inviting the cudgel of
enlightenment's application....

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