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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 05:59:53 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
Cc:        guenther.schmidt@bigfoot.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Processes that have been terminated still resident in system!
Message-ID:  <20010115055953.A976@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010114175942.A26240@northernbrewer.com>; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:59:42PM -0600
References:  <3A6237BF.2192ED1D@web.de> <20010114175942.A26240@northernbrewer.com>

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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:59:42PM -0600, Christopher Farley wrote:
> Guenther Schmidt (gue.schmidt@web.de) wrote:
> 
> > I'm using 4.2 Stable. I found that when I finish with certain programms
> > I can still see them taking up rescources under top. Namely netscape and
> > Staroffice.
> > 
> > This continued even after I logged out from X, process was still
> > resident.
> > 
> > Is this because the programs are natively linux programms or is it just
> > something that happens occasionaly?
> 
> It shouldn't have anything to do with them being Linux programs. It
> probably has to do with the fact that Netscape and StarOffice are
> gigantic and buggy. I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it happens
> consistently.

I can vouch for this with Netscape, also under Linux and Sunos it
sometimes just doesn't know when it has outstayed it's welcome ...

For information: Netscape is approximately 11 million lines of code..
all dedicated to taking over every dribble of resource on your
computer and hanging on like grim death to it ...

Cliff


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