[asterisk-users] asterisk's zombie processes

[vip killa]

we are in a production environment and cannot reboot. besides, these zombie
processes appear minutes after asterisk starts taking calls.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Satish Patel <satish_lx at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> 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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