Number of processes and memory allocation

[Joerg Maschtaler]

Peter Palfrader schrieb am 23.04.2006 23:09:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Joerg Maschtaler wrote:
> 
>> I run two Tor server which settings are very similar and i can't figure
>> out why one of them runs only one process with a memory allocation of ~
>> 10 MB (online since 6 h) and the other one runs six processes with a
>> memory allocation up to 120MB.
> 
>> Nickname road2nowhere
>> Nickname roundabout
> 
> The multiple processes you are seeing are probably just threads of one
> and the same process.  I assume the node where you see multiple lines in
> ps is running on a 2.4 kernel using linux threads instead of NPTL.

Yes, you are right.
The other node uses a 2.6 kernel.

> 120 megs doesn't seem that much for a busy node.  I guess it's
> roundabout using that as it appears more stable than your other node.

Right, too.

Thx!
Joerg