Defunct processes are created with parent pid of poster process <Defunct> (4248772)

The system has a large number of defunct processes that have a parent pid of the poster process and they go away when post is stopped and reappear when post is started

ps -ef | grep <pid of post>

oracle 17211 13034 0 13:11 ? 00:00:00 [oracle] <defunct>

The tns setting in the sqlnet.ora file default BEQUEATH_DETACH=no

options <yes | no>

The tns setting in the sqlnet.ora file should be modified from

BEQUEATH_DETACH=no

to

BEQUEATH_DETACH=yes

bequeath_detach

The default is NO (turn signal handling on). By setting BEQUEATH_DETACH=YES, Oracle turns off its own signal handlers and pass all child processes over to the UNIX init process (pid = 1). The init process will take over responsibility to checks for "defunct" child processes and terminate them.