How to avoid duplicating workers with Symfony local server? - symfony

I found out that I have quite many Symfony local web server workers registered (around ~35), and the number keeps growing. I usually just start server with symfony serve and then kill it (Ctrl + \) when no longer needed. Apparently killing it leaves a worker behind, as seen in symfony server:status. Running symfony serve again just creates a new worker.
symfony server:status output:
Local Web Server
Not Running
Workers
PID 6327: /usr/bin/php7.2 -S 127.0.0.1:43653 -d variables_order=EGPCS /home/mindaugas/.symfony/php/83247c3521c3ac3990bf3f823ef473db0a9445e1-router.php
PID 24596: /usr/bin/php7.2 -S 127.0.0.1:37789 -d variables_order=EGPCS /home/mindaugas/.symfony/php/83247c3521c3ac3990bf3f823ef473db0a9445e1-router.php
PID 6575: /usr/bin/php7.4 -S 127.0.0.1:42505 -d variables_order=EGPCS /home/mindaugas/.symfony/php/83247c3521c3ac3990bf3f823ef473db0a9445e1-router.php
PID 41550: /usr/bin/php7.4 -S 127.0.0.1:36313 -d variables_order=EGPCS /home/mindaugas/.symfony/php/83247c3521c3ac3990bf3f823ef473db0a9445e1-router.php
...
Environment Variables
None
So my questions regarding this:
#1: is it possible to quickly kill the server? I assume symfony server:stop is more correct way, but that requires additional console window and entering the command.
#2: how to kill those workers that are registered from previous sessions? Trying e.g. kill 6327 says that there's no such process. Also they're not gone after system restart.
Those extra workers are bothering me because for each one of them the server log output in the console is duplicated. So right now on each request to the server I get around 3k lines of log output in the console. Which makes it pretty useless.

I have the same problem after upgrading to Symfony CLI version v4.19.0...
My (very) bad workaround:
rm /home/myusername/.symfony/var/83247c3521c3ac3990bf3f823ef473db0a9445e1/*

Edit: this answer is not accurate, as hinted a by #CrSrr's answer above.
The symfony command adds data to both the ./log and ./var directories. Deleting entries in only one of those does not remove the appearance of non-existent workers in the project directory. I was fooled by checking status in a directory where the server:start had never been run.
A bug report is on file with symfony here.
Just faced with a similar issue. The PIDs were not to be found.
PS G:\workspace\joined> symfony server:status
Local Web Server
Not Running
Workers
PID 7732: C:\php\php-cgi.exe -b 63801 -d error_log=C:\Users\George\.symfony\log\e79ad2f4b30a2f0a35c3b5ab08772770b382a3d6.log
PID 19324: C:\php\php-cgi.exe -b 62927 -d error_log=C:\Users\George\.symfony\log\e79ad2f4b30a2f0a35c3b5ab08772770b382a3d6.log
PID 17968: C:\php\php-cgi.exe -b 50197 -d error_log=C:\Users\George\.symfony\log\e79ad2f4b30a2f0a35c3b5ab08772770b382a3d6.log
PID 14040: C:\php\php-cgi.exe -b 55075 -d error_log=C:\Users\George\.symfony\log\e79ad2f4b30a2f0a35c3b5ab08772770b382a3d6.log
Environment Variables
None
In the Windows OS, the log files are kept in %USERPROFILE%.symfony. There's most likely a similar location in your home directory. Deleting all the contents of that directory allowed a new Windows Terminal app to show:
PS G:\workspace> symfony server:status
Local Web Server
Not Running
Workers
No Workers
Environment Variables
None

do symfony serve:stopto stopped the server and do against symfony serve to run the server good luck

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