I've seen this problem, but not your specific case. If you kill -9 a process, the process is killed without getting control again. So the process can't reap its zombies. Some operating systems will clean up, and others won't.

apachectl is a shell script that calls "httpd" with different parms. So if your "man httpd", and you could then try various ways to shut the apache server down using "httpd ...". If you find what you want, then either update apachectl or generate a script to do it correctly.

Good Luck

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In reply to Re: "Defunct" FastCGI processes (mod_fastcgi) after apachectl stop by flexvault
in thread "Defunct" FastCGI processes (mod_fastcgi) after apachectl stop by locked_user sundialsvc4

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