"Mark A. Schwenk" wrote:
> 
> Dan Ingalls wrote:
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> > Mark -
> >
> > allInstances will find instances that are no longer in use.  Whenever you really care about enumerating active instances, precede your code by a garbage collection.  In other words, you should evaluate
> >
> >         Smalltalk garbageCollect.  Process allInstances inspect
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> >         - Dan
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> Thanks for the quick response. Actually I had garbage collected and I still see lots of zombies. Is it just me or is something broken? Following is a list or my processes.
> -Mark Schwenk
>  WellThot Inc.
> 

I went back to a clean image and found six processes. I also found that my Utilities>process enhancement was susceptible to showing garbage processes since the utility did not include a direct call to Smalltalk garbageCollect just before iterating over the process instances.

Sorry for the false alarm!
-Mark Schwenk