On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 07:58, Sharath wrote: > However my curiosity got aroused when I installed > RH8.. the system monitor gives a proper display of the > process, fork and thread. It is via heuristics. You can see the patch at http://tech9.net/rml/procps Also, we have a mailing list for this: procps-list@redhat.com. Anyhow, we compare three items which are already exported: VM RSS, total VM size, and command line. So obviously it is a complete and blind guess. But amazingly it works well. There is one corner case that it is easily fooled by, but otherwise we are pretty pleased with it. All new procps versions have the feature, but Red Hat is the only distro at the moment that I know of who is shipping with the feature. You can turn it off via the '-m' flag to ps or the 'H' key in top. Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
