=> 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>?

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’ve never run into a situation where it’s a problem. But I just checked one of my Ubuntu servers and don’t have any. What were the processes doing? What do they belong to?

        • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Lots of these: Zombie PID: 230650 | Parent PID: 7791 | Parent Name: spawn-unnamed

          Two of those: Zombie PID: 61072 | Parent PID: 7791 | Parent Name: bash

          Lots of these: Zombie PID: 56798 | Parent PID: 7791 | Parent Name: health.sh

          Lots of these: Zombie PID: 16761 | Parent PID: 7646 | Parent Name: curl

          …and a box of naked lady tee’s