[Asterisk-Users] Multiple instances of asterisk showing from 'ps aux'

[Jason Walker]

When I run 'ps aux' I get this:
 
root       964  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:00 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       965  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:00 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       967  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:00 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       975  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:00 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       982  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:00 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       984  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:12 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       986  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:00 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       987  0.1  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   1:10 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       988  0.1  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   1:24 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       989  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:00 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       993  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:00 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       994  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:17 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       996  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:00 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root       997  0.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    00:02   0:02 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root     24202  1.2  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    09:04   6:52 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root     29417  1.6  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    11:07   6:54 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root      6555  1.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    14:44   2:04 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root      8463  1.1  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    15:29   1:53 asterisk
-vvvg -c
root     14405  1.0  0.4 47836 8280 ?        S    17:47   0:15 asterisk
-vvvg -c
 
My question is, why are there 21 instances of asterisk running?
 
I understand the concept of a multi-threaded app in Linux (such as httpd). I
am just looking for possible avenues and explanations of where I could look
to figure out what each instance (or some of the instances) are actually
doing.
 
* 1.0.9; FC1 
 
Thanks in advance
 
Jason
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