On 5/5/2011 4:44 PM, Jon Grant wrote:
Perhaps what I was observing was something other than defunct process then, as the system was mostly un-usable because CPU was maxed out. Although was still indicated as defunct in "top" output.
My guess is that what you saw were numerous processes being spawned by a run away program, dieing, and momentarily being defunct before init got around to reaping them.
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