Just my $0.02 worth ... I've noticed the very same thing.  Sometimes
after closing Netscape I'll find a process called ld-linux.so.2 eating
up most of my CPU.  So, you're not alone.

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 :)
>
>> 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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