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Problem with smail (runq)




Hello all!

Anyone using smail noticed lots of processes like this:

  PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
.
.
.
  119  ?  S     0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
 6607  ?  S     0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
 6608  ?  Z     0:00 (runq) <zombie>
 6610  ?  S     0:01 runq
 6784  ?  S     0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
 6785  ?  Z     0:00 (runq) <zombie>
 6787  ?  S     0:01 runq
 6969  ?  S     0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
 6970  ?  Z     0:00 (runq) <zombie>
 6972  ?  S     0:01 runq
 7222  ?  S     0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
 7223  ?  Z     0:00 (runq) <zombie>
 7225  ?  S     0:00 runq
 7308  ?  S     0:00 runq
 7309  ?  S     0:00 runq
 7312  ?  S     0:00 runq
 7314  ?  S     0:00 runq
 7315  ?  S     0:00 runq

I know this runs by cron in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/mail, but I don't know
if this is OK.

				Amit.