fuser processes from Apache(?)

[Thomas Olsen]

Hi

Yesterday I installed Apache with php5. Since then I have several times 
experienced my system being unusable because of a lot of 'fuser' processes:

2559 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/sh -c   [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -
d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f 
-cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {} 2>/dev/null \; -
delete
 2564 ?        S      0:00 find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -
type f -cmin +24 ! -execdir fuser -s {} ; -delete
 3967 ?        R      0:03 fuser -s ./sess_2ehce2ict2u8bovo40ifp1nb81
 3968 ?        Z      0:00 [fuser] <defunct>
 3969 ?        Z      0:00 [fuser] <defunct>
 3970 ?        Z      0:00 [fuser] <defunct>
 3971 ?        Z      0:00 [fuser] <defunct>

Doing a count gives:

ps ax|grep fuser|wc -l
17485

Any ideas on what's causing this?

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Olsen