[comp.sys.next] too many defunct processes running!!!

absinthe@milton.u.washington.edu (Daniel Faken) (09/21/90)

This happened to me a few times as well.. turned out that was repeatedly
forking processes (ie. more than I wanted to).  You might check for loops
that repeatedly fork()...
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Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer) (09/21/90)

Also, if you haven't done a wait() for the dead child processes, they will 
continue to take up process table space.

...eric

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