Killing processes by name

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Author: George Toft
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Subject: Killing processes by name
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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