[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 produces *many* zombie processes on Debian.

[MrHanMan]

I happened to see it pop up on the bug tracker.  Issue #0018515.  Very
funny error message in the patch.

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Steve Davies <davies147 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 December 2010 22:06, Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at meg.abyt.es> wrote:
>> On Monday 20 December 2010 14:39:36 Ernie Dunbar wrote:
>>> We have an issue with our Asterisk install where Asterisk produces many
>>> Zombie processes (on the order of several hundred per minute) until
>>> either the Asterisk server is restarted (and the zombies die a natural
>>> death), or the kernel runs out of PID space (happens within hours) and
>>> brings the system to a halt.
>>>
>>> This problem only happens when the server is under some non-trivial
>>> load. We were testing this server with 8 SCCP phones, making up to five
>>> simultaneous calls through the DAHDI interface (a Digium Wildcard
>>> TE410P/TE405P (1st Gen)). Once our customers (nearly all SIP clients)
>>> start logging on and we get around 7 or 8 simultaneous DAHDI calls,
>>> Asterisk starts producing zombie processes at a high rate.
>>
>> I know what the issue is.  Please open a report on
>> https://issues.asterisk.org and I'll get a patch uploaded pronto.
>>
>
> Please let us know the issue number once raised - I'd like to follow this one.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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