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 -- "It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity" -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
