I remember one folk's post said that the "process" here on Linux is actually "thread" Do I remember right? "Trevor Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/27/2000 11:21:19 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: YUE M. MA/EMPL/MD/Bell-Atl) Subject: why so many java processes for tomat 3.2b6? I'm using tomcat 3.2 standalone for out web app under linux and java 1.3. When I do a ps aux there's over 25 java processes. With tomcat 3.1 there was nothing like that. Does this happen to anyone else?