Large amount of defunct processes on the system due to Systemd not reaping efficiently
Issue
- Following a systemd daemon reload, a lot of zombie processes are created and the number is increasing.
- Large amount of Zombie processes, causing applications to fail.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Systemd
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