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=> 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 . 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 ?

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

7791 7768 201 /usr/sbin/netdata -u netdat 8.8 0.5 01:49:50

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like netdata doing health checks but not always reaping its children. If you can reproduce it, I'd file a bug report.

[–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like someone already did this:

https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/20565

Maybe upgrading will fix it?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Hey bro, thanks for the lead! I will read the issue report and check if netdata is current.

@ilyam8 - adding to it here, netdata does leave tons of zombies around, this is not a "cannot reproduce" (not sure why that tag was added without even the minimal response, and then removed needs triage on top of that, so this ticket just dies off) One simply needs a running netdata instance and let it run a while. With time, 1, three and then tens of zombies will be listed at login.