diff --git a/accounts-db/src/accounts_db.rs b/accounts-db/src/accounts_db.rs
index d528c4a3c6b47d..8fe9abb398aafe 100644
--- a/accounts-db/src/accounts_db.rs
+++ b/accounts-db/src/accounts_db.rs
@@ -2042,6 +2042,7 @@ pub struct ShrinkStats {
     accounts_loaded: AtomicU64,
     purged_zero_lamports: AtomicU64,
     accounts_not_found_in_index: AtomicU64,
+    adding_slots_to_clean: AtomicU64,
     num_ancient_slots_shrunk: AtomicU64,
 }
 
@@ -2166,6 +2167,11 @@ impl ShrinkStats {
                     self.accounts_not_found_in_index.swap(0, Ordering::Relaxed),
                     i64
                 ),
+                (
+                    "adding_slots_to_clean",
+                    self.adding_slots_to_clean.swap(0, Ordering::Relaxed),
+                    i64
+                ),
             );
         }
     }
@@ -2399,6 +2405,13 @@ impl ShrinkAncientStats {
                     .swap(0, Ordering::Relaxed),
                 i64
             ),
+            (
+                "adding_slots_to_clean",
+                self.shrink_stats
+                    .adding_slots_to_clean
+                    .swap(0, Ordering::Relaxed),
+                i64
+            ),
         );
     }
 }
@@ -3440,7 +3453,7 @@ impl AccountsDb {
                             },
                             None,
                             false,
-                            ScanFilter::All,
+                            self.scan_filter_for_shrinking,
                         );
                     });
                 found_not_zero_accum.fetch_add(found_not_zero, Ordering::Relaxed);
@@ -3975,6 +3988,7 @@ impl AccountsDb {
         let mut alive = 0;
         let mut dead = 0;
         let mut index = 0;
+        let mut adding_slots_to_clean = 0;
         let mut index_scan_returned_some_count = 0;
         let mut index_scan_returned_none_count = 0;
         let mut all_are_zero_lamports = true;
@@ -4019,6 +4033,18 @@ impl AccountsDb {
                         // rewriting the storage entries.
                         pubkeys_to_unref.push(pubkey);
                         dead += 1;
+
+                        // If we are marking something dead, and the only remaining alive account is zero lamport, then make that zero lamport slot ready to be cleaned.
+                        // If that slot happens to only contain zero lamport accounts, the whole slot will go away
+                        if slot_list.len() == 1 // should we also check for ref counts here?
+                            && slot_list
+                                .iter()
+                                .all(|(_slot, acct_info)| acct_info.is_zero_lamport())
+                        {
+                            adding_slots_to_clean += 1;
+                            self.accounts_index
+                                .add_uncleaned_roots(slot_list.iter().map(|(slot, _)| *slot));
+                        }
                     } else {
                         do_populate_accounts_for_shrink(ref_count, slot_list);
                     }
@@ -4049,6 +4075,9 @@ impl AccountsDb {
             .fetch_add(index_scan_returned_none_count, Ordering::Relaxed);
         stats.alive_accounts.fetch_add(alive, Ordering::Relaxed);
         stats.dead_accounts.fetch_add(dead, Ordering::Relaxed);
+        stats
+            .adding_slots_to_clean
+            .fetch_add(adding_slots_to_clean, Ordering::Relaxed);
 
         LoadAccountsIndexForShrink {
             alive_accounts,
diff --git a/accounts-db/src/accounts_index/in_mem_accounts_index.rs b/accounts-db/src/accounts_index/in_mem_accounts_index.rs
index 5566ab4420cfd8..e007bf515c8688 100644
--- a/accounts-db/src/accounts_index/in_mem_accounts_index.rs
+++ b/accounts-db/src/accounts_index/in_mem_accounts_index.rs
@@ -1013,8 +1013,10 @@ impl<T: IndexValue, U: DiskIndexValue + From<T> + Into<T>> InMemAccountsIndex<T,
                     }
                     (false, None) // keep 0 and > 1 slot lists in mem. They will be cleaned or shrunk soon.
                 } else {
-                    // keep items with slot lists that contained cached items
-                    let evict = !slot_list.iter().any(|(_, info)| info.is_cached());
+                    // keep items with slot lists that contained cached items or zero lamports
+                    let evict = !slot_list
+                        .iter()
+                        .any(|(_, info)| info.is_cached() || info.is_zero_lamport());
                     if !evict && update_stats {
                         Self::update_stat(&self.stats().held_in_mem.slot_list_cached, 1);
                     }