=> 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>?
that sounds like poor garbage collection in an application.
I’ve written software that had similar issues when writing to files and I failed to “close” the file after writing.
processes stay open, files stay open. 500 byte processes times 10000 orphaned process can make for a bad time.