Dangling processes

I'm running Oracle on UnixWare. Oracle appears to be leaving dangling processes hanging around. ps shows the processes as something like "oraclebdev P:4096,6,9,." Is this something I should be concerned about and if so, how do I fix it?

Thanks in advance,   

Steve

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