Re: [Nautilus-list] 4 nautilus processes chewing up memory

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 11 Feb 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Mario Vukelic <mario vukelic chello at> writes:
> > On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 07:50, Darin Adler wrote:
> > 
> > > These aren't 4 processes chewing up 60% of your memory. They are 4 threads
> > > inside 1 process, 
> > 
> > This needs a big blinking glowing info screen somewhere. At the very
> > least it should go /prominently/ in the Gnome 2 user docs. This question
> > confuses people and comes up /a lot/
> 
> Someone should just fix top. Apparently it requires libc changes or
> something though.

Everyone claims it needs kernel patches. The kernel has no concept of 
which threads make up the same process. They are just different processes 
that share some objects (e.g. the mappings).

/ Alex