Killing processes by name

[Eric Richardson]

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