From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Number of threads for virtual machine process
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:51:31 +0100
Message-ID: <54E21203.90800@redhat.com>
References: <CAN8oO4DY_SzdPTE6dX0L8-8aUQKtEDmN49wF_sop6BzWZEEqtA@mail.gmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: mad Engineer <themadengin33r@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Return-path: <kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:63360 "EHLO
	mail-wg0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org
	with ESMTP id S1755724AbbBPPvf (ORCPT <rfc822;kvm@vger.kernel.org>);
	Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:51:35 -0500
Received: by mail-wg0-f53.google.com with SMTP id a1so13521086wgh.12
        for <kvm@vger.kernel.org>; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 07:51:34 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <CAN8oO4DY_SzdPTE6dX0L8-8aUQKtEDmN49wF_sop6BzWZEEqtA@mail.gmail.com>
Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-ID: <kvm.vger.kernel.org>



On 16/02/2015 11:54, mad Engineer wrote:
> Hello all,
>              On a RHEL 6.4 server i created a vm with 2 VCPU and
> expecting to see single process with 2 threads on host.
> but
>       top -p "pid-of-qemu" -H
> 
>   shows many threads randomly being created and
> destroyed,"pid-of-qemu" remains the same but other threads' pid keep
> on changing.

The "extra" threads are doing I/O.

Paolo