begin quote > > Any idea what might cause this to get started, or how to trace down > > what did start it originally.
> i noticed these weird process(es) myself the other day. I generally > have 2 on my system it seems, one as a child process for mozilla, and > the other for evolution. Not sure where they from, but I'm pretty > sure it is a new occurrence. okay, the culprit here is mozilla, and thereby just about anything that uses mozilla. :-/ I havent dug in the sourcecode, however some strings and grep magic show that it is three references in the moz libraries that are the cause : libswft.so , libfreebl.a, libsoftokn3.so all of them use "netstat -ni" for something. My guess is to check wether its online or not , or perhaps something else ;) <defunct> state would mean that it doesn't let the program terminate properly, so this is probably a mozilla bug. "wee" . Feel free to file at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ . Dont forget "emerge info" //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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