On Jan 5, 2008 5:07 PM, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:19:29PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Hi all, > > wmtop reads its information from /proc fs, so if subprocesses (instead > > of using threads) are listed more times, they are in the list. > > > > I don't think I want to change this behaviour, mainly because so many > > things have changed in the kernel area from the time of report to now, > > and it could still be that different threads of the same application > > are listed as different processes under /proc. > > > > Justin, do you think we can close this report (no submit answer in > > about 1 year, unreproduc here, no needed fix from my POV)? > I agree that you shouldn't try to combine processes with their > children, at least not without intending to spend lots of effort on > this (the user has to be able to define what kinds of processes should > be combined). > > However I don't know much about threads so I'm not sure; you can run > "ps -eLF" and see that processes threads have the same PID and > different LWP ID, but only the single PID has an entry in /proc. > > It seems like it'll probably be okay if you close the bug.
That said, I'm closing this bug. Thank you (all) for the attention. Regards, Sandro -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
