Re: Why mozilla always starts five instances??
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 14:24, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> Thus spake Zhao You Bing:
> > And every one cost 58M memory,
> > How to make mozilla only start one process??
>
> It doesn't start 5 instances, and each one is not taking up 58M memory.
> Mozilla is a multithreaded program. Under Linux, each thread appears to
> be a separate process, but in reality they share memory space. Thus,
> what you see in 'ps' or 'top' may *appear* to be 5 processes, each
> taking up 58M memory, but is in reality 1 process (with multiple
> threads), which takes up a *total* of 58M memory.
You can see exactly what memory is being used by running gtop and having
a look at the memory map. If you check some of the addresses in each
thread you will see that they are the same.
rgh
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