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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: processes wouldn't die (again)
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> 
> I didn't upgrade to current for a week to see if I can reproduce the bug.
> Nate suggested to not swap on both wd and sd, so I removed swapping on scsi
> disks.

It wasn't me that suggested it.  I said that I was swapping on both
drives and had not problems, so I wasn't sure why that would fix the
problem.

> After a week (3 hours/day) I didn't see anything and I decided to
> update my binaries (I couldn't resist). And the thing was there:
...

I lean towards hardware problems for these.  If may be your drive/CPU
getting warm and locking up.  Is your box adequately cooled?


Nate