[Bug 3177] sshd process had became into a defunct process and could not accept requests any more after many count sftp accesses.

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Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> ---
A <defunct> process is a child process that has exited but has not yet
had its parent wait() for it yet.  There is a (usually) brief period
between when the process exits and its parent retrieves its exit
status.  Having a very small number of them appearing briefly is not
necessarily a problem.  Having the same pid appearing for any
significant time (say, more than a second) is probably a problem.

I had a look at the log, but did not see anything that would explain
what you're describing.

If you increase MaxStartups does the behaviour change?  The default is 
10:30:100 so I'd suggest trying "100:30:1000"

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