too many java processes ???

[kreso]

When we run tomcat, it opens about 30 java processes and it takes a lot (almost all) of our 128 MB memory. Is that supposed to be? We are running it on linux. Processes look something like this...   root     11077 11049  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11078 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:12 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11079 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11080 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11081 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:04 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11082 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11083 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:01 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11084 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11085 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11086 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11087 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11088 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11089 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11090 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11091 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11092 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11093 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11094 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11095 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11096 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11097 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11098 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11099 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11100 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11101 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11102 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11103 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11104 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/‰  root     11105 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11106 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11107 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11108 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11109 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:01 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11110 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:02 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11111 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:06 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11112 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native root     11114 11077  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:07 /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native�     please let us know how we can limit so it doesn't use whole our memory... thanks