[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0018515]: [patch] Asterisk produces many zombie processes while under load.

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18515 
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Reported By:                ernied
Assigned To:                tilghman
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   18515
Category:                   Core/General
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
Asterisk Version:           1.6.2.15 
JIRA:                        
Regression:                 No 
Reviewboard Link:            
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2010-12-21 20:26 CST
Last Modified:              2010-12-30 14:55 CST
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Summary:                    [patch] Asterisk produces many zombie processes
while under load.
Description: 
Once under a non-trivial load (trivial being the 6 phones in our office
that we've been testing with for the past week, non-trivial being around a
hundred sip clients and about 7 or 8 simultaneous DAHDI calls), Asterisk
starts producing a high volume of zombie processes - say a few hundred a
minute. If left alone, this crashes the operating system within a few
hours, but not before calls start getting very flaky.


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 (0130057) ernied (reporter) - 2010-12-30 14:55
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18515#c130057 
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If anything, zombies start to accumulate when these RTP hold time warning
messages appear. Over the course of 1 minute, the zombie processes ramp up
to https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=72#c300 under light load. I haven't
seen it get any worse than that quite
yet. 

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2010-12-30 14:55 ernied         Note Added: 0130057                          
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