LimeWire hangs my Ubunutu

[Osama I. Dosary]

Thomas Janssen wrote:

>Am Montag 01 August 2005 07:56 schrieb Osama I. Dosary:
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>>Thomas Janssen wrote:
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>>>Am Samstag 30 Juli 2005 08:20 schrieb Osama I. Dosary:
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>>>>Stats before starting LimeWire:
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>>>>top - 09:07:05 up  1:10,  6 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.13
>>>>Tasks:  81 total,   1 running,  79 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
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>>>Maybe it`s the Zombie ? Just a thaught.
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>>What about the zombie? Could it cause the machine to hang?
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>Maybe. If not, someone will please correct me. So what Program is the Zombie? 
>Is it allways there?
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I googled for "zombie process", and a zombie is supposed to be a dead 
process, which the parent has not got around to cleaning it up -- or 
something like that.

On my machine, there isn't always zombies. But right now there are 2, 
and I'm not running LimeWire.

-Osama