[asterisk-users] rasterisk r processes take the rest of my cpu

[Giorgio Incantalupo]

Hi all,

I was playing with "top" on my Asterisk 1.4.24 server when I noticed 
this strange thing:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
26797 asterisk  25   0 70524  14m 6416 S  1.3  2.9   5:59.44 asterisk
.......
26518 asterisk  25   0  3316 1452 1140 R 46.6  0.3   1443:39 asterisk
26790 asterisk  25   0  3316 1444 1132 R 46.6  0.3   1425:49 asterisk

The first is the real asterisk process which is working fine (I can 
make/receive calls).
I tried to get some more info about the the last two mysterious 
processes with the "ps" command: they are "rasterisk r" processes but 
their parent is not a shell, they are somehow generated by the "init" 
process (pid = 1).
I tried to kill one: the other process %CPU got the double, about 93%!

Does anybody have some idea why "init" generates these processes on my 
server?

Thank you.

Giorgio.