[Asterisk-Users] Child PID's

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Matt Schulte wrote:
> All, I'm not sure how to word this question but we're noticing a lot of
> our asterisk boxes no longer have multiple asterisk child processes.
> i.e. doing a 'ps ax' reveals only 1 asterisk PID when normally I'm used
> to seeing 8+ .. There is no rhyme or reason to it, and we're using the
> safe_asterisk script which has always worked in the past. Ast 1.2.4, zap
> 1.2.4, naturally..

This is completely normal; if your distro is using LinuxThreads, then
you will see multiple processes, but if it is using NPTL (as current
distros do), then you will only see one process because the threads are
not shown as processes.