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# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 20847 17.1 0.0 0 0 tty1 ZNl Jul01 108:29 [xine] <defunct
root 21237 16.8 0.0 0 0 tty1 ZNl Jul01 106:48 [xine] <defunct
root 22481 17.1 0.0 0 0 tty1 ZNl Jul01 107:38 [xine] <defunct
root 23569 17.3 0.0 0 0 tty1 ZNl Jul01 108:08 [xine] <defunct
root 24012 17.2 0.0 0 0 tty1 ZNl Jul01 107:23 [xine] <defunct
root 24640 17.3 0.0 0 0 tty1 ZNl Jul01 107:38 [xine] <defunct
root 25062 17.4 0.0 0 0 tty1 ZNl Jul01 107:39 [xine] <defunct
root 25282 17.5 0.0 0 0 tty1 ZNl Jul01 108:32 [xine] <defunct
root 25437 17.7 0.0 0 0 tty1 Zl Jul01 109:44 [xine] <defunct
root 25877 17.3 0.0 0 0 tty1 Zl Jul01 106:47 [xine] <defunct
root 27926 16.9 0.0 0 0 tty1 Zl Jul01 103:08 [xine] <defunct
"ps aux" gave a lot of other stuff too, but I only wanted to show the instances of xine. You were right, Puppy knows that xine is a zombie. All those zombie xines are definitely slowing down Quirky's response time. For instance, after I clicked on an mp3 file to play it, the file played after just a few seconds but the Pmusic GUI took about a minute to pop onto the desktop. Also, pages take a lot longer to load in the browser.
I can still do what I need to do, but I'll be rebooting soon. Too bad; I've been running Quirky Werewolf64-7.4 from DVD (RAM only) without rebooting for about two months in this computer, online the whole time. Every once in a while SeaMonkey gets crudded up and I have to kill Mozilla and restart the browser, but that's quick and painless because when SeaMonkey is closed unexpectedly (killed) it remembers all the tabs it had open and reloads them when it restarts.
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