[Asterisk-Dev] Number of Asterisk process

[Steve Kann]

On Jan 14, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Eric wrote:

> Brian,
>
> Ultimately, yes, it is, but I've categorized "old ps" with linuxthreads
> and "new ps" with NPTL to make it way more simple.  :)
>
> More specifically, since you've called me out on it, older versions of
> ps didn't show threads, because (someone correct me if I'm not entirely
> accurate), they just couldn't tell what was a thread based on the
> linuxthreads library.  From what I understand, it may have been a 
> thread,
> but it was a process in it's own right because it had it's own process
> identifier, description, etc.
>

Actually, I think that RH8's ps collapses all threads into one line in 
the listing, and RH8 doesn't have NPTL.

-SteveK