[asterisk-users] asterisk's zombie processes

Satish Patel satish_lx at hotmail.com
Thu May 19 07:59:30 CDT 2011


Sometime reboot does help.

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On May 19, 2011, at 8:09 AM, vip killa <vipkilla at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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