Good point.  I forgot Linux uses green threads vice native threads,
so you are right.  I am used to Solaris with native threads.

George


Eric Richardson wrote:
> 
> George Toft wrote:
> 
>  > The garbage collection that takes place is inside the VM, not in the
> collection
>  >  of unused VM's.  There's a slight difference.  If you have
>  > hundreds of VM's, there's a programmatic error somewhere.
>  >
> A process shows up for every thread. Killing the java that is the parent
> process should take care of all the processes in the process table. I'm
> not sure why each thread shows up in the Linux process table but my
> guess is that is how they mapped threads in the VM port. I understand
> IBM did a lot of work on the Linux threading model. There are three
> models I'm aware of.
> Process Thread
> 1      -     1
> 1      -     many
> many   -     many
> 
> This is at least how I remember a Solaris whitepaper on Java threading
> models.
> 
> Eric
> 
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