tomcat41 producing 28 java daemons

[C. Kukulies]

when running tomcat41 (ports, 5.2.1) I'm getting about
28 of these:
782  p3  I      0:08.76 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  783  p3  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  784  p3  S      0:01.26 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  785  p3  I      0:00.01 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  786  p3  I      0:00.02 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  787  p3  S      0:00.11 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  788  p3  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  789  p3  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  790  p3  I      0:01.60 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  795  p3  S      0:00.03 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  797  p3  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  798  p3  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  799  p3  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  800  p3  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  801  p3  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc
  802  p3  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -jar -Dc

Is this normal?

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de