Codex spawned 1000s of Zombies even after not being used for several days

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.104.0

What subscription do you have?

None

Which model were you using?

_No response_

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Terminal.app

What issue are you seeing?

^ Title codex has spawned 1000s of Zombie processes that essentially crashed my computer as no other process could be spawned. You can see the count by the scroll indicator of the attached screenshot, it's tiny even after filtering by codex!

<img width="955" height="633" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7dc8e349-96eb-4564-9c19-60e373ddd43b" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

N/A. Unsure. I have not used Codex in several days.

What is the expected behavior?

Not create or leave behind so many processes, especially when not being used?

Additional information

_No response_

Edit: I checked the exact count -

<img width="226" height="86" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1a677ba7-df41-403a-9e11-d6a20500bccc" />

This 2256 process is after I manually killed 100s. So indeed, there were 1000s of these zombie processes.