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Generally, defunct processes, or zombies, are caused by a parent process not reaping its children. This happens when a child dies without telling its parent, who continues to wait for that notice. And, yes, they are a bad thing- they can slow your system to a complete standstill.
Which process is the parent process of all those zombies (type "ps -e", without the quotes, on a telnet command line)?
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