> The problem is the fact that I'm having too much defunct process. > Usually I have between 350-500 process running by machine. From that, > normally I have between 90-120 defunct process per machine. Do they stay forever, or do they go away? Which qmail process is the parent? I have seen Solaris 2.x systems where processes do stay around forever, but I have not seen in on, eg, FreeBSD. Regards.