any ideas as to why it was doing this in the first place though? 

isildur

On Fri, 28 May 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:

> Yup, this happened with the GENERIC kernel, but I recompiled and ran a
> debug kernel and it seems to have stopped. I'll try a generic kernel and
> see if they return. 
> --Chuck
> 
> At 12:54 AM 5/28/99 -0700, Brian D Chase wrote:
> >On Fri, 28 May 1999, Brian D Chase wrote:
> >
> >> I'm finding that compiling a clean GENERIC kernel from the 1.4 source
> >> results in a large number of zombies lingering around.
> >
> >Actually, it's not the compiling of the kernel, it's the running of the
> >newly compiled kernel.
> >
> >-brian.
> >---
> >Brian "JARAI" Chase | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ | VAXZilla LIVES!!!
> >
> 
>