too many processes on Linux

[Rahul Sood]

I compiled omniOrb 2.4.0 on a Linux kernel 2.0.29 on i586. omniThread
uses Posix threads on Linux. I checked and confirmed that I have
/usr/include/pthread.h and /usr/lib/libpthread.a

When running the examples I noticed that upto 5 processes are created for
every impl object. Shouldn't impl objects be created in their own threads
instead of their own processes? omniNames also creates 5 processes on my
machine. Here's the output from ps, which shows 5 processes for the
omniOrb example eg3_impl, and 5 for omniNames. eg3_impl causes a 6th
process to be created for omniNames. At this rate I will run out of
process id's if running a few dozen objects under the BOA!

  PID  TT STAT   TIME COMMAND
  155  p2 S      0:00 -bash 
  157  p1 S      0:00 -bash 
  169  p3 S      0:00 -bash 
  201  p2 S      0:27 netscape 
  203  p2 S      0:00 (dns helper) 
  398  p2 S      0:00 ./num_server 
  588  p0 S      0:00 -bash 
  595  p0 S      0:00 /home/rsood/proj/omniORB_2.4.0/bin/i586_linux_2.0/omniNam 
  599  p0 S      0:00 /home/rsood/proj/omniORB_2.4.0/bin/i586_linux_2.0/omniNam 
  600  p0 S      0:00 /home/rsood/proj/omniORB_2.4.0/bin/i586_linux_2.0/omniNam 
  601  p0 S      0:00 /home/rsood/proj/omniORB_2.4.0/bin/i586_linux_2.0/omniNam 
  602  p0 S      0:00 /home/rsood/proj/omniORB_2.4.0/bin/i586_linux_2.0/omniNam 
  637  p2 S      0:00 ./eg3_impl 
  639  p2 S      0:00 ./eg3_impl 
  640  p2 S      0:00 ./eg3_impl 
  641  p0 S      0:00 /home/rsood/proj/omniORB_2.4.0/bin/i586_linux_2.0/omniNam 
  642  p2 S      0:00 ./eg3_impl 
  643  p2 S      0:00 ./eg3_impl 
  646  p0 R      0:00 ps