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On Friday 28 November 2003 08:34, John Hicks wrote:

> Out of 374 process, 210 are for nspluginviewer. Sounds
> like the culprit.
>
> Another 79 are for kdeinit, of which 50 have the
> string:
> "kdeinit: kio_http http /tmp/ksocket-root/klauncher..."
> (This when I count 23 currently open windows in KDE.)

Very likely the nspluginviewer has opened those HTTP connections.

> I just exited KDE, did a ps aux to verify there were no
> nspluginviewer processes left running, and restarted
> KDE. It brought up all 210 instances of nspluginviewer
> again, plus 84 instances of the kdeinit string
> detailed above (up from 50!!).
>
> So it appears I've been slowly accumulating these
> zombie processes (that keep coming back to life :)

Perhaps they are restarted by session management.
Kill them save that session and re-login.
If they keep coming back, the problems is somewhere else.

> I just did a killall nspluginviewer. Interestingly,
> that reduced the count of the kdeinit: kio_http
> processes from 84 to 45, which sounds almost
> reasonable (I now have 26 KDE windows open).
>
> That should abate the problem for a while. Now, why did
> it occur in the first place?

Perhaps nspluginviewer tries to load a malfunctioning plugin and is then no=
t=20
able to quit correctly, thus staying around.
It might be a specific website that causes this.

> I've been assuming that nspluginviewer is a
> netscape/mozilla creation which is used by both
> mozilla and konqueror (since I see its error messages
> in konqueror when it can't launch).

I think it is a KDE tool program used to embed Netscape plugins into=20
Konqueror.

Cheers,
Kevin

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