[Asterisk-Users] multiple instances of asterisk spawning

[Steven Kokinos]

Thanks for the pleasant response.

In-fact I'm not a new unix user at all, and am quite familiar with 
multi-threaded apps. However, it is not clear from the documentation 
whether or not asterisk is multi-threaded. i had assumed it was (or had 
recently become so) when i initially saw this behavior and searched 
(and found nothing), then asked the question to the list (which yielded 
no response).

before putting my system in production i wanted to be certain this was 
in-fact the case. note - the only change in my environment is the 
kernel version. perhaps the kernel process reporting is slightly 
different between the versions, or i set a configuration option 
somewhat differently (though i copied the previous config file as the 
base for the new kernel).

-Steve

On Apr 27, 2004, at 12:21 PM, Steven Critchfield wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:04, Steven Kokinos wrote:
>> Hello-
>>
>> I have noticed that since i upgraded my kernel, asterisk spawns many
>> copies (usually approximately 18) when starting up. It then runs fine,
>> but there doesn't seem to be any reason for this behavior. I have 
>> tried
>> moving between different kernel versions, and all but the stock fedora
>> core 1 kernel exhibits the same behavior.
>>
>> I have verified running this with both safe_asterisk (as I usually do)
>> as well as manually at the command line with no difference in 
>> behavior.
>
> READ THE DAMN ARCHIVES, or at least semi recent discussions.
>
> I'm betting you are a fairly new unix user as you don't seem to
> recognize a multi threaded app. Asterisk is behaving similarly to
> apache, starting many threads to service quite a few items at once.
>
> Your kernel upgrade is probably not the only thing that has happened
> here. It was commented recently in this mailing list that a recent
> change in RH ha changed the default behaviour of ps. This change is why
> you are now seeing something else.
> -- 
> Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>
>
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