[asterisk-users] useless mpg123 processes hanging around

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 05:50:25PM -0400, Jeremy Kister wrote:
> On 11/4/2010 5:30 PM, Warren Selby wrote:
> > I've never really looked that closely at them, sorry.  Are they causing some
> > kind of issue on your box, or are you just curious?
> 
> just curious; i didnt think it was the expected behavior and wanted to 
> fix it.
> 
> It actually appears that the child mpg123 does do something, and the 
> parent is in a continuous loop making sure the child is alive.
> 
> So for the archives, i suppose asterisk spawns these off once so that it 
> can be used as a single source for all channels, rather than spawning 
> off one mpg123 for each channel.

In the 'files' mode Asterisk plays the music separately for each
channel. If you use mpg123 or any other streamer, there is a single
stream per class.

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