I am playing aaround wwith mozilla and notice that when starting it I 
get multiple processes started each reporting 28 MB mem usage


10:51pm  up 44 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.09
80 processes: 79 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.1% user,  1.7% system,  0.0% nice, 98.0% idle
Mem:   192864K av,  189376K used,    3488K free,   71056K shrd,   34668K 
buff
Swap:  105804K av,    1496K used,  104308K free                   83696K 
cached

   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  1430 bhughes    3   0 28040  26M 12484 S       0  0.0 14.2   0:23 
mozilla-bin
  1432 bhughes    0   0 28040  26M 12484 S       0  0.0 14.2   0:00 
mozilla-bin
  1433 bhughes    0   0 28040  26M 12484 S       0  0.0 14.2   0:00 
mozilla-bin
  1434 bhughes    0   0 28040  26M 12484 S       0  0.0 14.2   0:00 
mozilla-bin
  1462 bhughes    0   0 28040  26M 12484 S       0  0.0 14.2   0:00 
mozilla-bin
  1466 bhughes    0   0 28040  26M 12484 S       0  0.0 14.2   0:00 
mozilla-bin
  1467 bhughes    0   0 28040  26M 12484 S       0  0.0 14.2   0:00 
mozilla-bin
  1436 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:05 java_vm
  1437 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1438 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1439 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1440 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1441 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1442 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1443 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1444 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1445 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1446 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1447 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1448 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1449 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1450 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1451 bhughes    0   0 20140  19M  4816 S       0  0.0 10.4   0:00 java_vm
  1254 root       8   0 18760  18M  2320 S       0  0.0  9.7   0:21 X



Here is the output of top sorted by memory usage.  Now I am assuming 
that not all this is really used but can anyone explain what is really 
happening here?

Bret





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