[Asterisk-Users] Multiple instances of asterisk showing from 'ps aux'

[BJ Weschke]

 strace?
  valgrind?
  There aren't any profiling tools or the sort within the Asterisk suite
that will deliver the information you're looking for about what each thread
is doing.

 On 10/20/05, Jason Walker <desktophero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>   When I run 'ps aux' I get this:
>  root 964 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 965 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 967 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 975 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 982 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 984 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:12 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 986 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 987 0.1 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 1:10 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 988 0.1 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 1:24 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 989 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 993 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 994 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:17 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 996 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:00 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 997 0.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 00:02 0:02 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 24202 1.2 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 09:04 6:52 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 29417 1.6 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 11:07 6:54 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 6555 1.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 14:44 2:04 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 8463 1.1 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 15:29 1:53 asterisk -vvvg -c
> root 14405 1.0 0.4 47836 8280 ? S 17:47 0:15 asterisk -vvvg -c
>  My question is, why are there 21 instances of asterisk running?
>  I understand the concept of a multi-threaded app in Linux (such as
> httpd). I am just looking for possible avenues and explanations of where I
> could look to figure out what each instance (or some of the instances) are
> actually doing.
>  * 1.0.9; FC1
>  Thanks in advance
>  Jason
>
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