Htop showing multiple java processes with different pids

Question

Htop on my linux machine shows many \"processes\" after launching one java program/JVM. I do understand that the JVM runs multiple threads (for the actual program, for garba

Answer 1

Actually, it's just that htop by default shows each thread as a separate process. You can add the line hide_userland_threads=1 to your ~/.config/htop/htoprc file to show only one line.

See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10362/why-does-htop-show-more-process-than-ps