It looked like a memory leak, but it was really an orphan process that never terminated

A scenario that narrows down the root cause, centered on analyzing the parent-child process relationship and the actual memory footprint, in the situation of what looked like a memory leak but was really an orphan process that never terminated.

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• Identify the primary failure signal in the Process Forensics scenario.
• Separate visible symptoms from the underlying technical dependency.
• Describe the safest recovery path and the follow-up prevention work.

1. Summarize the current impact and the last known change.
2. Collect direct evidence from logs, runtime state, and configuration before changing anything.
3. Separate immediate recovery from permanent prevention work.

Choose the smallest safe recovery action first, then record the prevention work that reduces repeat incidents.