[ale] Odd mozilla behaviour?

[Mike Panetta]

I just got back from lunch and noticed that all my mozilla windows had somehow crashed (they went solid black, then when I minimized one and braught it back open, it was solid gray) so I decided to do a 'ps' to see if they died because of memory usage (mozilla is known for memory leaks, atleast in my book) and I noticed something very odd...  Besides the 80(??) or so instances of plugger that were marked "[defunct]" (not quite sure what that means) there was an instance of netstat that was marked that way as well.  I did a 'pstree' to see if it belonged to mozilla, and it did...   Is it normal for mozilla to call netstat, or is it some strange backdoor/hack or am I just being paranoid?  I noticed something similar on one of my machines at home and was worried about it then too, but I did not think much of it until now.

Has anyone else on this list seen anything similar?  I am kinda used to the odd memory leak from mozilla (I run 5 or 6 windows with sometimes as many as 8 or 10 tabs in each one) but it has been much better lately then it has been in the past (I have been able to keep mozilla up for months at a time instead of just weeks), so that does not bother me too much.  Its all the defunct plugger processes and the netstat that bother me...

Here is a snippit of the pstree output after I noticed mozilla had died.

 |-mozilla-bin-+-java_vm
 |             |-mozilla-bin---6*[mozilla-bin]
 |             |-netstat
 |             `-82*[plugger]


Thanks,
Mike

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