Orphaned Processes

Author: jthorpe6Created Mar 15, 2026Updated Jun 7, 2026

Describe the bug Similar to https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/issues/262 I run soft-serve in a docker container, and have a mirrored repo, which I suspect is causing the amount of orphaned processes, as I don't do many git operations to other repos that often.

$ ps auxw | grep git | grep "defunct" | wc -l
653

$ ps auxw | grep $(ps o ppid $(ps auxw | grep git | grep "defunct" | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}') | tail -n 1) 
root     3283003  0.0  0.4 1289376 32832 ?       Ssl  Mar13   0:19 /usr/local/bin/soft serve

restarting the container fixes this.

$ ps auxw | grep git | grep defunct | wc -l
655
$ docker restart soft-serve 
soft-serve
$ ps auxw | grep git | grep defunct | wc -l
0

Environment (please complete the following information):

Host OS:

$ uname -rvm
6.12.62+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.62-1+rpt1 (2025-12-18) aarch64

Docker version:

$ docker --version
Docker version 29.3.0, build 5927d80

soft-serve version

$ docker image inspect charmcli/soft-serve | grep created
                "org.opencontainers.image.created": "2026-03-06T01:36:01Z",

$ docker exec -it soft-serve /usr/local/bin/soft -v
soft version v0.11.5 (879ece7)

Source: charmbracelet/soft-serve

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