[Asterisk-Users] multiple asterisk process ?

[Moises Silva]

Thanks for clarifying that Paul. my output for getconf is:

linuxthreads-0.10

so i guess is "normal" to have several threads shown by "ps axu" right?



On 4/17/06, Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 19:12 +0200, Paul Hewlett wrote:
>
> >   This is incorrect. Asterisk is a multithreaded system but how the threads
> > are handled by the OS  depends on the version of threads that is being used.
> >    For Linuxthreads (kernel 2.4), one would see a separate entry for each
> > thread when executing 'ps aux'. For NPTL (linux 2.6) one does not see each
> > thread as a separate entry. So the OP must tell us which kernel version he is
> > using. Alternatively type
> >
> >              getconf  GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
> >
> > as root. For NPTL u should get something like
> >
> >              NPTL 2.3.5
> >
> > or suchlike.
> >
> > If you are using NPTL and there is more than one entry for asterisk, then
> > asterisk has spawned an extra process for some reason. If extra processes
> > keep appearing then I would say that he has a bug or error somewhere and
> > asterisk is  respawning that separate process.
> >
>
> Are you sure?
>
> root      2532  0.0  0.2   2532   620 ?        S    17:22
> 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk
> root      2539  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2542  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2544  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2545  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2546  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2547  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2548  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2549  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2550  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2551  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2552  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2553  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2554  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2555  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2556  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2557  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2558  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2559  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2560  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2561  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2562  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2563  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2564  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:01
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2565  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2566  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
> root      2567  0.0  2.8  17716  7316 ?        S    17:22   0:00
> asterisk -n -vvvg -c
>
> With NPTL 2.3.6
>
> If that is the case * is totally hosed, no?
>
> --
> Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>
>
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