> This is almost certainly NOT a Linux problem.
...
> This also happens under Solaris 2.5.1. Just two weeks ago I was called in
> on a Saturday to kill a zombie Netscape 4.5 process that had brought an
> Ultra 10 workstation to its virtual knees. In a month I'll have two dozen
> of these workstations running Netscape 4.5 on a three shift 24/7 basis.
> I'm not looking forward to getting calls in the middle of the night.
Maybe this is a bit off topic, but I have also seen this to happen on
Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 2.7 almost regularly. Even more on Solaris than
on Linux, but probably because on Solaris I run much longer sessions
(i.e., until something happens to netscape and I have to kill it).
Teemu
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