Wow... (<-- blown away at performance)

[Ivan Voras]

On 23 February 2011 21:17, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:11:35 pm Ivan Voras wrote:
>> On 22/02/2011 23:33, Alexander Best wrote:
>>
>> >>>>>      Also, it looks like npviewer.bin still hangs to resources on
> until
>> >>>>> Firefox closes (or I kill it :)..), so something still needs to be
>> >>>>> resolved there, but that isn't a regression (it's acted that way for
>> >>>>> ages), and shouldn't be too hard to do.
>>
>> While on the subject - any ideas why npviewer.bin is present as so many
>> processes? They all appear to have some identical properties, most
>> curiously their memory usage, so shouldn't they be threads?
>
> Threads in Linux processes show up as individual processes.

Ah, ok. This was "fixed" in Linux (in their nptl project cca 2005) so
I assumed it was also fixed here.