On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, jose antonio ortega ruiz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote:
> >
> > I have just installed j2sdk1.3 from Blackdown's debs. I tried to configure
> > Tomcat to use it insted of jdk1.2.2.
> > But when I restart tomcat - java forks into 25 processes running
> > Tomcat....
> > strange, huh ?
> > With jdk1.2.2 everything's fine...
> >
> this is due to the use of native threads by default in jdk1.3, which in
> linux are spawn as processess... so, everything's still fine :-)
>
Well, I thought _native_ threads are implemented as threads ;), not
processes. Isn't it less effective this way ? Forking is time-expensive...
