HotSpot internal threads

Apparently, HotSpot starts some number of internal threads.

In my environment (SUSE Linux 10.1, JDK 5, Intel Dual Core) , when I run a simple single-threaded test program(just your basic 'hello world'), I see 12 threads running.

There are probably 2 GC threads, 1 main thread, what are the rest?

Sergey

[330 byte] By [snovgorodskya] at [2007-11-27 8:29:04]