Many identical Apache Tomcat children are automatically generated at startup.

Question

I have no applications installed under webapps except tomcat "manager /"

Every time I run. /startup.sh to start tomcat, and I open htop (advanced version of top), I see 16 new processes spawned as children of the main apache tomcat process. Here's what all the processes (child + parent) look like in htop:

/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_29/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/local/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.33/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManage -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/loca/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.33/endorsed -classpath /home/dhruba/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.33/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/loca/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.33 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/loca/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.33 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/local/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.33/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start 

Any idea on why they are created and how to manage this number?

Answer 1

These are not processes, these are flows. You have only one process.