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

From: Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>
To: Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>
Cc: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>, Mario Vukelic <mario vukelic chello at>, Nautilus <nautilus-list lists eazel com>
Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] 4 nautilus processes chewing up memory
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:53:03 -0500 (EST)

On 11 Feb 2002, Seth Nickell wrote:

> > > 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).
> 
> On the other hand, procman is able to kluge around this with reasonable
> accuracy.

Reasonable for a gui app, not for glibc/kernel. The glibc people want a 
tid (thread id) for each process.

/ Alex

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