=> There are 90 zombie processes.

On one of my Homelab servers running Ubuntu Jammy, I always seem to get zombie processes. A quick check with ps -eo pid,ppid,stat,cmd | grep -w Z shows them all <defunct>. It just bugs me. I shut down the server in the most nicest of ways I know how with sudo shutdown -h now but I always get zombie processes shown on start up.

Am I missing something? Do these show up on your servers? How do you deal with them besides just ignoring them if they are <defunct>?

  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    9 hours ago

    I got a few on my laptop but none on either of my long running homelab boxes (70-80 days uptime). On my laptop they all seem related to espeak, the tts program. Is there any pattern in what processes yours are from?

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      my long running homelab boxes (70-80 days uptime)

      Ahh see I shut down my servers at night. I just couldn’t justify having them run while I was sleeping, and since I am the only user.

      • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Makes sense. I share my media library with 10-15 friends so there’s usually a few streams late at night, and scrubs, container updates, and backups run early morning at like 2-4am.