On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 10:52 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > I just installed the Firefox update on a Fedora 7 box > (firefox-2.0.0.10-2). While using top, I noticed I had 76 zombie > processes. A little more digging revealed they were all mplayer > related. On a hunch, I closed firefox, and viola, all the zombie > mplayer processes disappeared. Is it random, or happens after you've been browsing pages which make use of the mplayer plugin? e.g. Pages with embedded movie clips. I've seen mplayer abort and not properly quit while playing various windows media files in the past, I can well imagine that happening from embedded content, too. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
