multiple processes and multiple threads
On a frequent basis, we are seeing a child process spawned from our original process and we have not been able to pinpoint why. We are not intentionally spawning any processes. Would anyone have any idea why this might happen?
These child processes come up and die within about a three second time span.
Our original java process is large and can have 100+ threads running at any given time. Yet we are running on a 12 CPU sun sparc machine with a java application that can run 100+ threads at any given time.At one point, we though the java native threads might spawn a lightweight child process as its usage spilled over onto other CPU's. However, we have ran tests and that does not seem to be the case.
Has anyone seen this before? Is there something in the java virtual machine (i.e.-garbage collection, etc.) that might spawn off processes?
