I've been running VDR with a FF card so I'm new to the xine-pluginmethod of running things. I find that the VDR machine is creating avery large number of defunct screensaver processes under Xine-UI. Theydo not clear until Xine is stopped and though they do not take up anysystem resources, they can't be a good thing. I've disabled thescreensaver from the GUI, from the command line, and made thegnome-screensaver app itself non-executable with a chmod -x. I am currently running vdr 1.5.12 with v4l drivers, CoreAVC processes,"walery" xine-lib from the list, Xine-UI 0.99.6, Xine-plugin 0.8.2under Debian 2.6.24-rc4. Pretty sure I'm running Gnome, but this whole X11 thing is new. Much happier at a prompt...I know how to configure THAT!

-----snip------- top - 12:07:01 up 16:54, 2 users, load average: 2.58, 2.51, 1.57 Tasks: 212 total, 3 running, 140 sleeping, 4 stopped, 65 zombie -----snip------- top - 12:17:08 up 17:04, 2 users, load average: 2.21, 2.68, 2.10 Tasks: 235 total, 3 running, 140 sleeping, 4 stopped, 88 zombie -----snip------- top - 12:27:04 up 17:14, 2 users, load average: 2.59, 2.73, 2.38 Tasks: 256 total, 5 running, 138 sleeping, 4 stopped, 109 zombie -----snip------- top - 13:50:39 up 18:37, 2 users, load average: 0.72, 0.92, 1.04 Tasks: 614 total, 1 running, 142 sleeping, 4 stopped, 467 zombie -----snip------- root 6980 6570 0 06:52 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-screensav] <defunct> ... root 26745 25679 0 13:44 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-screensav] <defunct> root 26746 6946 0 13:44 pts/3 00:00:00 ps -ef

I'd be happy if the screensaver never ran again, as it's of no use here whatsoever. Where do I begin looking to curb the creation of these zombies?

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