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Peter Marais
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‎06-05-2007 07:44 PM

‎06-05-2007 07:44 PM

nxmextr

Any one now what this paramater means? Comes up in ps -m under the wchan column.
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Venkatesh BL
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‎06-05-2007 10:28 PM

‎06-05-2007 10:28 PM

Re: nxmextr

That means that its the 'extra' thread created by the NxM thread library to make effective use of the cpus when other running user threads gets blocked for some reason. These are not harmful as they get cleaned up if not used for a while.
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