# There are many defunct process while esrally race success

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-are-many-defunct-process-while-esrally-race-success/360719>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-security, elastic-stack-alerting, docker, rally\
**Created:** [June 3, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-are-many-defunct-process-while-esrally-race-success/360719 "2024-06-03T14:08:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andy\_Cong](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andy_cong/32/134851_2.png) [@Andy\_Cong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andy_Cong)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-are-many-defunct-process-while-esrally-race-success/360719/1 "2024-06-03T14:08:19Z")

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There are many defunct process while esrally race success.  
I have commit a complete issue on GitHub, but there is no response. Has anyone encountered this problem before?  
Can you provide some suggestions?

add: **run esrally on docker env**  
[https://github.com/elastic/rally/issues/1856](https://github.com/elastic/rally/issues/1856)

And after I run esrally many times, it gets slower and slower. I am using benchmark-only mode. How can I solve this problem?

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**Author:** ![gareth-ellis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gareth-ellis/32/125269_2.png) [@gareth-ellis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gareth-ellis)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-are-many-defunct-process-while-esrally-race-success/360719/2 "2024-06-03T15:08:51Z")

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Hello, I responded to your github issue, lets carry on the discussion there.

Gareth