Yup, my allrw has one zombie now, AMU 11, after an hour unattended. Not sure when it happened.
Crowdsource debugging - wish I'd had that back in the day.
Trying allwrites next.
Edit: update, 4 zombies in quick succession after about 20 minutes using allwrites (AMU 9-12). On to the "oh" test.
Edit: update, 1 zombie after 7 minutes using "oh" (AMU 10).
I guess I'll turn logging on, superstitiously hoping that will keep the zombie horde at bay until there's some new development.