Try 'ps auxf' to see if they are the kids of another process - and kill that 
one.

On Friday 7805 April 2002 01:07 pm, you wrote:
> I've got hundreds of these bogging down my machine:
>
> bradyh   28812  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Mar22   0:00 [sh
> <defunct>] bradyh   28813  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Mar22   0:00
> [sh <defunct>] bradyh   28814  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Mar22  
> 0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh   28815  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Mar22
>   0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh   28816  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z   
> Mar22   0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh   28817  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z 
>   Mar22   0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh   28818  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?       
> Z    Mar22   0:00 [sh <defunct>] ...
>
> Is there any way to get rid of them aside from rebooting?  No form of kill
> seems to work on them.
>
> Thanks,
> Brady
>
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