[asterisk-users] Asterisk 12 - zombie processes

[Paul Belanger]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Yaron Nachum <nachum.yaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mathew,
> When I run 'ps -ef|grep asterisk' the following processes are displayed:
> root      6861     1  0 Aug27 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh
> /ivr/app/asterisk/sbin/safe_asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk -C
> /ivr/app/asterisk/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
> asterisk  8062  6861  3 Oct27 ?        00:44:56
> /ivr/app/asterisk/sbin/asterisk -f -U asterisk -G asterisk -C
> /ivr/app/asterisk/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf -vvvg -c
> root     20776  2200  0 11:20 pts/2    00:00:33 tail -f asterisk.log
> asterisk 23076  8062  0 17:01 ?        00:00:00 [asterisk] <defunct>
> asterisk 23897  8062  0 17:03 ?        00:00:00 [asterisk] <defunct>
>
> also when I run top the same amount of zombie processes are displayed:
> Tasks: 185 total,   1 running, 182 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
>
> Regarding the AGI - we are using AGI in order to run php scripts for
> external logic. I have printed the PIDs of the php scripts and none of them
> are related to the PID's of those zombie processes.
> Do you have any idea how to find out what are these processes?
> Yaron.
>
Are you doing anything like:

# asterisk -rx 'core show channels'

via an external process?

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