[asterisk-users] asterisk's zombie processes

[vip killa]

I'm sure it's not nagios. I'm not running "check_sip" and i'm running
nagios' NRPE on several other machines that do not have asterisk running.

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>wrote:

> 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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