Here is what I see in my process listing
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root@rebel:~# ps aux |grep Z
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1234 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov21 0:00 [sh] <defunct>
root 12657 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 03:00 0:00 [sh] <defunct>
root 17950 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov21 0:00 [sh] <defunct>
root 19773 0.0 0.0 14224 1032 pts/0 S+ 09:00 0:00 grep --color=auto Z
root 22416 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 02:00 0:00 [sh] <defunct>
root 22755 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov20 0:00 [sh] <defunct>
root 32387 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov20 0:00 [sh] <defunct>
The offender seems to be stemming from a shell script.
Any help to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.