On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:05:37AM -0700, Ed Schaller said: > Sounds to me like a fork bomb or something similar. Every now and then > these crop up in weird places. Watch ps or top to see what is forking > so much. (watch 'ps ax | wc -l' if your lazy like me) <snip> > Good luck!
Thanks a lot. That was it. I have a program called wmmail that runs in
the slit in fluxbox to tell me when I have new mail. I ran ps -aux|wc
-l, and got over 1800. When I ran ps -aux, I saw a ton (about 1800 :) )
wmmail processes. Anyone know of a good replacement to wmmail?
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