On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:45:02PM -0800, Mark Fallon wrote:
> Hi,
>> I notice than when I launch StarOffice that it makes a number of
> copies of itself. Even when I stripped the installation down
> to just the word processor it still does this. Each process
> shares the executable but seems to need the oder of 10MB to
> itself, so it means it needs 50MB of memory on top of what it
> shares.
>> Is there anyway to reduce the number of processes starts when
> it is launched?
>> I checked and the current release of OpenOffice does the same.
>> I have not gone through any the source, but none of documentation
> seems to offer a good explanation for this.
Those are not completely separate processes, but instead are
separate threads. Each process is shared the same memory pages,
so no additional memory is used up.
Basically, don't worry about it.
Later,
Kenn
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