I don't know if this is supposed to work this way, but when I run 'top' I see between 2-3 zombie processes listed. I don't know which ones are the zombie processes though.
The other thing I noticed is that there are about 6 processes that are spawned (I guess) from the Passenger FrameworkSpawner. Does that seem normal? My site generally doesn't get a tremendous amount of traffic but nevertheless, there have been some slow-downs as of late, which has made me wonder if this has anything to do with it.
Thanks!
eric