[mythtv-users] 2 short questions.

[thor]

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:41 am, sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com wrote:

> I was just hoping to reduce the number of mythbackend
> processes/childs/threads. I don't watch that much TV and I can't see why
> there would need to be that many waiting threads/processes.

	The backend keeps a pool of instatiated threads around to serve requests as 
they come in. This avoids the cost of starting a new thread on every request, 
which is a good thing.

	1) Threads in the same process share the same memory.
	2) A non executing thread uses (essentially) no CPU resources.

	Given 1 and 2, I personally fail to understand why people seem so concerned 
with how many threads are in use. 

- thor