[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 produces *many* zombie processes on Debian.

[Steve Davies]

On 21 December 2010 22:06, Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at meg.abyt.es> wrote:
> On Monday 20 December 2010 14:39:36 Ernie Dunbar wrote:
>> We have an issue with our Asterisk install where Asterisk produces many
>> Zombie processes (on the order of several hundred per minute) until
>> either the Asterisk server is restarted (and the zombies die a natural
>> death), or the kernel runs out of PID space (happens within hours) and
>> brings the system to a halt.
>>
>> This problem only happens when the server is under some non-trivial
>> load. We were testing this server with 8 SCCP phones, making up to five
>> simultaneous calls through the DAHDI interface (a Digium Wildcard
>> TE410P/TE405P (1st Gen)). Once our customers (nearly all SIP clients)
>> start logging on and we get around 7 or 8 simultaneous DAHDI calls,
>> Asterisk starts producing zombie processes at a high rate.
>
> I know what the issue is.  Please open a report on
> https://issues.asterisk.org and I'll get a patch uploaded pronto.
>

Please let us know the issue number once raised - I'd like to follow this one.

Regards,
Steve