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From: Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer)
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Subject: Re: too many defunct processes running!!! (on my old '030)
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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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