[Asterisk-Dev] Number of Asterisk process

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 21:18 +0100, Velimir Novkovic wrote:
> Just noticed that ‘ps’ shows different numbers of processes on my
> different Asterisk installations. Sometimes it is only one, apart form
> the console, and other times it is more then 10. Observations were
> made on idle, i.e. no active calls/channels, system.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on it? Thanks.

Check what flags you send to ps from time to time. RH or FC like to
coddle users and default to hiding things from you.

Asterisk is a multi threaded app and depending on how many types of
channels are configured and active calls, you can end up with many
entries showing up in ps.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>