Kinda... Right now I have two instances of it running. But, they're only taking 4M each (which still seems like a LOT).

When I started into this thread, I had 8 instances running, but I was able to watch them die off (through top).

My gut feel is that you're right - they're freaking out trying to parse your MMC card. It's one of those states where it doesn't know that it can't get anything from the file until it looks.

I'm gonna drop a bunch of random files on my card and see if I can get the crawler into a tizzy.

More in a bit.