On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 25454 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 > soffice.bin > 25444 rickm 20 0 32676 31M 24772 R 0 0.0 12.7 1:12 > soffice.bin > 25455 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 > soffice.bin > 25456 rickm 1 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.3 12.7 0:00 > soffice.bin > 25458 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 > soffice.bin > 25459 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 > soffice.bin > 25462 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 > soffice.bin
It looks to me like what you have is actually one process and seven *threads*. A thread is essentially the same process running at a different location, but using the same memory. ps, top, etc. don't know about threads, so they appear as a seperate process. Bottom line: StarOffice is really only using 32 meg, but has seven threads working in there. I'm guessing, though. Can anyone confirm this? Greg ----------- "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea." --RFC-1925
