Mozilla

Jason Clinton clintonj at umkc.edu
Thu Sep 12 18:36:14 CDT 2002


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David, InfoKwik Internet Solutions wrote:

|This is a question concerning Mozilla 1.0. Whenever I launch Mozilla I have
|noticed it launches 6 child processes all called "mozilla-bin", I can kill
|all but 2 of the processes and it runs just fine. Apparently the others are
|not needed.
|
|My question is, does anybody know if there is a way to change a file
|somewhere to only launch the required 2 processes. I have searched through
|google.com/linux and also the mozilla site and did not see anything on 
this.
|
|Thanks, Dave
|
The other processes are init threads and by killing them, you're 
reducing Mozilla's capacity to multitask, although, in theory they 
should respaw if needed. Additionally, the threads shouldn't be taking 
up any additional memory or resource due to the new threading in 2.4 
kernels.
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