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When debugging using netbeans run on a solaris box, using an X-windows terminal, the java processes inititated do not die. This leaves zombie processes which rapidly clog up the machines processor and have to be killed manually. Debug processes should be killed when the debug session terminates
This is bug of JDK: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4367942.html is fixed in JDK 1.3.0_4