Same at another AMD64 machine:
machine3$ ps -eHo pid,ppid,stat,cmd | grep kded4 | egrep -v grep 2200 1 Sl kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit] 2607 2200 Z [kded4] <defunct>
Same at another AMD64 machine:
machine3$ ps -eHo pid,ppid,stat,cmd | grep kded4 | egrep -v grep
2200 1 Sl kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]
2607 2200 Z [kded4] <defunct>