On 15 Oct 2000, Matthew Emmett wrote: > When netscape screws up and dies, it sometimes leaves it's "dns > helper" process, which takes up memory/swap. Does anyone know of a > way to clean up these old netscape processes, without killing the > netscape that is currently running?
Launch top. The dead netscape is often still running like a chicken with its head cut off and putting a dangerous load on the system. top will show you the <PID> of the errant process. Kill it with: $ kill -s 9 <PID> Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]