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Re: mozilla too many process



On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:53:11PM -0400, Seiichiro Tanizaki wrote:

| When I lunch mozilla,  it takes about 80M of memory

| with seven processes running.

This last statement isn't true.  It's one process with 7 "kernel"
threads.  The linux kernel maps threads onto lightweight processes.
Your output from 'ps' or 'top' will make it appear that there are many
processes running, but it is an illusion.

-D

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