[Asterisk-Users] Limit MOH processes

[Rich Adamson]

> > Seems to have been a common occurance on past * implementations. Just
> > stop asterisk, then kill all mpg123 sessions that exist, and restart
> > asterisk.
> > 
> > Seems to me that I read something recently where coding changes were
> > made to help resolve this; could be just my imagination though.
> 
> Looks like * doesn't kill the mpg123 procs on exit or restart, so on any 
> (re)start, there are some new mpg123s...

If I recall correctly, the issue has something to do with some sort
of error condition in * and is not generally associated with restarting
asterisk. Might want to research that further as if that is happening
to you, then I'd suggest there is something not configured correctly.
 
> I put a killall -9 mpg123 into my /etc/init.d/asterisk script... That 
> should help for now...