Zombie processes Firefox and Mozilla

[Markus Huber]

Hi,

does anyone experience zombie processes after having started firefox or 
mozilla? They are there immediatly after having started firefox or 
mozilla. I do not know since when I have them, just saw them yesterday, 
when I was tracking a bad data-harddisk - which is replaced by now.

This FC4-box is at actual patchlevel, and the versions are:
[markus at fc4 ~]$ rpm -q mozilla
mozilla-1.7.12-1.5.1
[markus at fc4 ~]$ rpm -q firefox
firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4

Here's an excerpt of:

[markus at fc4 ~]$ ps -ux

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND

markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Rl   14:08   4:26 
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin
markus    4533  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4534  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4535  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4536  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4537  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4539  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4540  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4541  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4542  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4608  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:13   0:00
markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Sl   14:08   4:26 
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin
markus    4533  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4534  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4535  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4536  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4537  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4539  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4540  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4541  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4542  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4608  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:13   0:00 
[netstat] <defunct>

Thank you for any suggestion,
Markus Huber