JBoss isn't actually creating that many processes (and yes you're correct processes are much heavier wieght than threads). The ps command when using kernels prior to 2.6, and the 2.6 kernel when not using NPTL, shows every thread as a process. So what you're seeing is one JBoss process and a bunch of threads that it created. If you want to see something really scarey do an lsof on each "process" and it will appear that JBoss is holding open hundreds of file decriptors if not thousands. This too is untrue, instead each "process"/thread reports all the descriptors currently open by any jboss thread.
If you are using kernel 2.6 with the new NPTL threading library you'd see what you'd expect to see. One JBoss process in the process list. So despite the fact that it looks really bad what you're seeing is actually just fine. <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3827414#3827414";>View the original post</a> <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3827414>Reply to the post</a> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
