Ted Ashton wrote:

> Thus it was written in the epistle of Donna Garverick,
> > my entirely non-scientific observations indicate that 'smallish' pids (in the
> > 65k range) are the right number.  'large-ish' pids (like 196758 in the above
> > example) are...well not :-)
>
> Here, killing the smallest of the pids is generally the way to go because the
> others are all children of the first and will go away when it does.

that's what i figured....          - d

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