Description of problem: On my x440 (with 8 procs and 16gigs ht on) if
just run "javac" (not doing any work)  I have javac processes still 
running if I look on top.  These processes are eating as much cpu time
as they can and they don't go way unless I explicitly kill -9  them.
The more I run javac the more zombies I get. This is not a good thing. 


I did a little stracing and found the following.

if I strace the initial process all the rt_sigsuspend calls 
look like this

 rt_sigsuspend([USR1] <unfinished ...>
--- SIGRT_0 (Real-time signal 0) ---
<... rt_sigsuspend resumed> )           = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)

and if I strace one of the running zombies I see

--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- 

over and over again.  They are stuck is some loop.
.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I am runnig 2.4.9-e.12summit.

How reproducible:  For me very easy 


Steps to Reproduce:
1. type javac at a console 
2. repeate step 1 as much as you want
3.
    
Actual results:
zombie javac processes remain drasticaly degrading performance.

Expected results:
no extra proceses.

Additional info:  Feel free to contact me for more debug info.