[asterisk-users] asterisk's zombie processes

[Alex Balashov]

Are you sure it's Asterisk creating the zombie processes, not the 
check_sip pinger in Nagios?

Nagios is extremely bad with high throughput and concurrency, and 
check_sip is a wrapper around 'sipsak', which means it takes the full 
Timer T1 * 64 to time out if the Asterisk server is truly not available 
(about ~30-32 sec).

On 05/18/2011 04:40 PM, vip killa wrote:

> I'm monitoring Asterisk with Nagios. Nagios constantly alerts because of
> too many zombie processes. I eventually had to disable the notification
> for the alert but why does Asterisk create so many zombie processes,
> I've see more than 30 at times and it generally stays in the 20s... just
> seems unusual and wondering if it's harmful, thanks in advance.
>
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