Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de> writes: > We had this on the list some days ago. Run ps ax and see if you've > got a huge quantity of (defunct) processes. I must have missed that thread; what ever became of it? I've recently noticed that my server has had a large number of defunct processes on occasion. Following this, I've re-booted which I'd rather not but the machine was becoming very slow and acting weird. Elizabeth