I've had the same thing while running Netscape on KDE/Redhat 6.1. The
libraries would appear as processes when I had a lot of Netscapae
Windows. This stopped when I upgraded RAM from 64 to 128. 

Sonam


 Paul Robinson wrote:
> 
> Hi Howard,
>         I have found that Netscape seems to be responsible for this.. I had one
> instance of ld-linux running at 98% and the entry didn't die until I killed
> Netscape. (4.61 to be precise). As I said, it "seems" to be responsible
> other times that I load netscape it doesn't show up.. perhaps it's from a
> plugin being loaded? Then again it could have been a complete co-incidence
> that it died right after I closed netscape.. Stranger things have happened
> after all :)
> 
> Anyway that's my half baked theory on it.
> 
> Paul
> 
> > I have just had a couple of 'puters with these processes running (this is
> > from "top")
> >
> > How come a shared library is running as a process, or am I not
> > understanding something here.
> >
> >   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
> COMMAND
> >  2776 shaneg    19   0 19244  12M  2088 R     10M 49.6 23.1 518:15
> ld-linux.so.2
> >  3253 shaneg    19   0 17816  772    32 R      16 49.6  1.4 530:18
> ld-linux.so.2
> >
> >
> > Howard.
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