The thing he didn't cover is that a zombie process not only doesn't have its memory cleaned up, but also resources like open files or bound ports and sock files. So that can be annoying if you have a process consuming a port and it will not die to free it.
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The thing he didn't cover is that a zombie process not only doesn't have its memory cleaned up, but also resources like open files or bound ports and sock files. So that can be annoying if you have a process consuming a port and it will not die to free it.