Why Tomcat launches many Java process?

[WhiteSox]

When I starts Tomcat, i notice (ps auxww | grep tomcat) that Tomcat launches many (about 30+) Java processes. What are they for? can I reduce them to 5-10 processes?

thx,

 

[LittleWing]

probably down to bad programming or process management :-(

tomcat is written in java so u have to start the jvm at some state. r u sure your terminating the process correctly??

 

[meadandale]

That's strange. When I launch Tomcat on Windows, it only starts a single java process. When I launch it on Unix it does the same thing. Which version are you running? Are you remembering to do a shutdown.sh after you do startup.sh?