Synopsis: child processes going to disk, gradually making server unusable State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Sat Nov 22 16:28:36 PST 1997 State-Changed-Why: In addition to what Dean said, are you serving files via NFS or is your ServerRoot located on a NFS mounted partition?
Processes becoming unkillable is almost always something broken with the OS; almost nothing a process can do should be able to make it completely unkillable.
