Hey that's cool! I didn't know you could do that with ps. They were being spawned by a program called hyperbola - killed that and now they're gone. Thanks. > 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