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  2. From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
  4. Subject: Re: ************ HELP: Defunct processes with XDM
  5. Message-ID: <jpe.720978596@ee.egr.duke.edu>
  6. Date: 5 Nov 92 15:49:56 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov04.171144.1154@dircon.co.uk>
  8. Sender: news@news.duke.edu
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  12. uad1216@dircon.co.uk (Hugh Neale) writes:
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  15. >This doesn't seem to do any harm until we have hundreds of defunct 
  16. >processes (which are of course un-killable), and eventually 
  17. >the system grinds to a halt and has to be re-booted.
  18.  
  19. Actually you can have a cron program that kills, the restarts the
  20. "master" xdm process at an appropriate time.  Another possibility
  21. is to grab the X11R5 xdm and build it -- it works properly.
  22.  
  23. -John
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