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Subject: dialog run away processes
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Hi there,

sometimes I find there one or two processes with the command name of 
'dialog' tacking the cpu on my freebsd machines.  any clues what creates 
this situation and how I can circumvent the problem?  It appears to 
happen around the time I run portmanager to update all the system ports.

I am running 6.2-RELEASE-p11

Cheers,

Noah