[asterisk-users] asterisk's zombie processes

[Steve Edwards]

On Wed, 18 May 2011, 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. 

Asterisk creates threads, not processes.

Trace back from the PPID of the zombies to see who created them

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