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If you run ps x -Hw on Linux running II 2.6 there appears to be many server process running, why?

April 26, 2017appears ii linux Ps run running server

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If you run ps x -Hw on Linux running II 2.6 there appears to be many server process running, why?

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As well as the dbms server this output actually includes user sessions which are created as light weight processes by the GLIBC pthread library. Every session will create a new thread. Linux has started to be/use OS threaded(s).