Monoliths

To avoid frequent loading and killing of tasks, large data reduction packages are normally organized as Monoliths or M-tasks. A monolith is a single task which contains a large number of independent programs which would otherwise be separate A-tasks. Thus a monolith will have many commands associated with it, whereas an A-task only has a single command. The monolith will be loaded when the first command is issued and then any of the other monolith commands may be issued without requiring the task to be reloaded.