I don't know what Tomcat is, but I did notice the references to threads in the ps output. AFAIK using threads causes ps (and top) to report more processes than really exist : each thread is reported as a process.
-D On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 05:50:38 Daniel de los Reyes wrote: | I just installed Tomcat and realiced it runs on 33 processes . Is this | normal? | Attached is the result of a ps ax | | -- | ______________________________ | Daniel de los Reyes | S2-Selling Soluciones | Valencia Spain | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 | ______________________________ | | PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND | 318 ? S 0:01 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java | -Dtomcat.home=/usr/local/tomcat org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat | 445 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java | -Dtomcat.home=/usr/local/tomcat org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat | 446 ? S 0:05 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java | -Dtomcat.home=/usr/local/tomcat org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat | 450 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java | -Dtomcat.home=/usr/local/tomcat org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat | 457 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java | -Dtomcat.home=/usr/local/tomcat org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat | 458 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java | -Dtomcat.home=/usr/local/tomcat org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat | 459 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java | -Dtomcat.home=/usr/local/tomcat org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat | 460 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java | -Dtomcat.home=/usr/local/tomcat org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomca |