[SOLVED] Why are multiple processes running with the same command

gacanepa · 09-19-2012, 07:34 AM

Hi all,
Attached is a screen cap of htop running in my Debian Squeeze sorted by showing processes of user mysql only. I am having kind of a hard time understanding how (and why) the same command (see column "Command") has multiple instances running with different PIDs.
Also, some of those processes seem to not have used or be using much CPU time (that is what the TIME+ column indicates, if I am not mistaken, which makes me wonder about the necessity of having them running.
Any advice?
(Sorry if this is a super noob question)

unSpawn · 09-19-2012, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by gacanepa

Any advice?

See 'man pthreads' for an introduction.
Htop > F2 > Display options > select "Hide userland threads", is your answer.

gacanepa · 09-19-2012, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

See 'man pthreads' for an introduction.
Htop > F2 > Display options > select "Hide userland threads", is your answer.

Thank you so very much! I'll add to your reputation right now and mark this thread as solved.
Have a great day.