On Friday 05 April 2002 01:07 pm, you wrote: > I've got hundreds of these bogging down my machine: > > bradyh 28812 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar22 0:00 [sh > <defunct>] bradyh 28813 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar22 0:00 > [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28814 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar22 > 0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28815 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar22 > 0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28816 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z > Mar22 0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28817 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z > Mar22 0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28818 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? > Z Mar22 0:00 [sh <defunct>] ... > > Is there any way to get rid of them aside from rebooting? No form of kill > seems to work on them. I think you have to bury them at midnight with a stake -- No, that's vampire processes. Nevermind. -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------