"Ed L." <pgsql at bluepolka.net> writes:

> On Friday October 22 2004 8:16, Jan Wieck wrote:

>> Anyhow, the difference is probably that you see the LW processes
>> implementing threads in one case and not the other.
>
> No, this is a 2-node setup, and this is the first (and only) slon started up 
> anywhere, and it is on the master node.  The 8 pids are sequential.  
> Interesting, my linux laptop shows no threads (2.4.20-30.9), while this 
> linux box shows them all as processes.

I think Jan is right--older Linux kernels displayed each thread as a
process, whereas newer ones (2.6 and 2.4 with NPTL patches) show a
single process.  It's just a cosmetic difference between the two
different kernels you're using.

-Doug