gnomerc = zombie

[David J Patrick]

My home system (Mandrake 10, gnome 2.4, on a pIII 500mhz w. 512ram) has 
been acting sluggish lately, with Evolution 1.4 hanging regularly.  I 
went to "top", to see what was eating my resources, or otherwise slowing 
things down, and the only suspect I spotted was
 3580 djp       16   0     0    0    0 Z  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 gnomerc 
<defunct>
a zombie !

what is that and how do I kill it ?
stake throught the heart ?
cut it's head RIGHT OFF ?

thanks in advance,
djp
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