[asterisk-users] asterisk's zombie processes

[vip killa]

Actually not sure if it is asterisk generating these zombies... i'm starting
to believe it's the enswitch_routed daemon, anybody familiar with enswitch?

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:02 AM, vip killa <vipkilla at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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