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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
