Re: Lots of dbsnmp and jre processes, memory hug

From: Rick Denoire <100.17706_at_germanynet.de>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:50:31 +0100
Message-ID: <urjaqvc1ri2rgs1hr0emcis1oq12ijek1j@4ax.com>

Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_adelphia.net> wrote:

>Actually, top is deceiving you. Those are not "jre processes", those are
>"jre threads". Threads are lightweight processes with kernel context only
>which map user area of given process that executes them. Your jre is
>multithreading and your tool is mistakenly reporting all those lightweight
>processes as full-fledged processes. That, precisely, is the rason why you
>no longer have gtop on RH. There is some inane "monitor" thingy but my
>impression is that nobody really knows what to do with those threads.
>There are several differences between LWP and real processes.

You contributed a lot to my understanding of the situation. Of course, I will have to keep trying to find the solution to the problems mentioned. I haven't have the time to prepare the TAR for Oracle.

Thanks
Rick Denoire Received on Sun Nov 02 2003 - 12:50:31 CST