[Asterisk-Users] asterisk showing more than once on ps

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

 	Hello All ,

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Michael Stahl wrote:
> The system startup script /etc/init.d/asterisk calls the script
> /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk
>
> In safe_asterisk, the program is started with -c by default (console on
> TTY9).
>
> That explains why it is starting with a console, but not why it's
> running so many times!  Here is what my system (FC3) shows:
>
> [root at pbx sbin]# ps ax | grep asterisk
> 3371 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk
> 3417 ?        S      0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> 6846 ?        S      0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> 6848 ?        S      0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> 6849 ?        S      0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> 6850 ?        S      0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> 6853 ?        S      0:01 asterisk -vvvg -c
> 6854 ?        S      0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> 8479 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep asterisk
>
>
> Can anyone explain why asterisk is being launched 7 times?
>
> Thanks,
> OCG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luki [mailto:lugosoft at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:33 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk showing more than once on ps
>
>> Do not know why, but have noticed redhat = 1, and debian = many
> Not quite. RedHat Enterprise also = many at times, depending on number
> of concurrent calls; usually one when idle. Maybe it has something to do
> with kernel 2.4 vs 2.6 and how threads show up in ps.
>
> --Luki

 	Below ps is from a * server on slackware 10.0 using the
 	command to start(**) .  So I am not sure the '-c' is what is
 	creating the multiple threads .  linux-2.6 issue maybe ?
 		Hth ,  JimL

# ps -auxww | grep aster
root       115  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       123  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:01 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       125  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       130  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       131  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       132  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       139  0.2  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   6:08 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       155  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       156  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       157  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v
root       158  0.0  1.1 11916 5944 ?        S    Jun30   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v

(**)
# after expansion of variables . 
/usr/sbin/asterisk -d -v -v -v >> /var/log/asterisk/debug

# sudo asterisk -V
Asterisk CVS-HEAD-05/01/05-14:10:09

# uname -a
Linux asterisk-1 2.6.11.8 #1 Sun May 1 12:04:14 MDT 2005 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linu

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