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Re: memory problem



On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:46:54PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2008-12-27 16:07:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > Are you sure?  I also see several firefox-bin processes, but they only
> > show up in pstree or htop, not in top.
> 
> They can also be shown in "top" after typing H.

In which case, they are different threads of the same process. They use 
the same memory map (which is why they all "happen" to take the same
ammount of memory). Showing different threads separately won't help
here.

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