[Asterisk-Users] Child PID's

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:19:29PM -0600, 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..
> 
> All my research has revealed nothing, regarding this, any suggestions?
> What I'm worried about, of course, is the single process getting
> overloaded with CPU calls and potentially denying service.

A single process, just as before. Multiple theads of it, as before.

Take a look at /proc/<PID>/tasks

Also, try 'ps auxm' rather than 'ps aux' . See ps(1) and look for
"threads".

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