On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 22:05:54 +0100 "Colin Brace" <cb at lim.nl> wrote: > five instances (!) of mplayer in memory, which apparently died rather > than exiting cleanly, and which I can't get rid of with killall -9. After kill -9, you usually just need give it a few minutes. If not, you could always force Linux to unload/reload the kernel module.