I now have 10 qmail-smtpd zombie processes running.  This has all 
occurred since Spamdyke was implemented.  ps aux |grep Z shows:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
qmaild   25253  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr20   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]
qmaild   25255  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr20   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]
qmaild   25273  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr20   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]
qmaild   13013  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr29   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]
qmaild   28360  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    May08   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]
qmaild   21187  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    May28   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]
qmaild    2342  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    May28   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]
qmaild   11080  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Jun06   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]
qmaild   12012  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Jun06   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]
qmaild   30223  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Jun14   0:00 
[qmail-smtpd <defunct>]

As can be seen, they are infrequent, but they are annoying.  Two questions:
1) short of rebooting, how do you get rid of a zombie (you can't kill 
them, hence the name).
2) Any inkling as to what may be causing these zombies?

Bruce
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