Pierpaolo Fumagalli wrote:

> Native threads, under Linux, are just "virtual processes", so another
> process is started, and data is shared between different processes.
> I don't know exacly what's the impact on memory (I don't know what's
> shared and what's kept in each process, top doesn't give the right
> answers, since threads are considered as stand-alone processes, the sum
> of the memory they allocate is not "what is allocated by all processes",
> a better check could be something like free, seing how much memory is
> still availabe to others).

Thanks. I checked "free" and discovered that I was using FAR LESS memory than I 
thought.

--Mark


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