[Breezy] "top" versus "gkrellm" - disparity in process numbers?

[Peter Garrett]

Hi Marius,

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:14:47 +0200
Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:


> I can confirm this.
> 
> [Peter wrote]
> > For example currently "top" reports
> > 
> > Tasks:  96 total,   2 running,  94 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> > 
> > while gkrellm claims I have 150 processes .

[snip]
> top shows the total number of processes.
> 
> gkrellm shows the total number of threads.

OK, that makes sense.

> 
>  ps -em will also list
> all threads for each process, as well as listing all processes -- the
> number of lines matches the sum of the numbers shown by top and gkrellm.

Aha! Thank you -

[snip]
> Linux kernel 2.4 used to assign different process IDs to each thread,
> so top also used to show the total number of threads.  Linux 2.6 and the
> new threading library (NPTL) changed this.
> 
> HTH,

It does, indeed - thanks again!

Peter