Backgroundrb devel - Jul 2008 - Question on number of processes engendered by BDRb

I have two workers (ie two files in my RAILS_ROOT/lib/workers directory) on
my Rails app. When I run a top on my box, I see *three* processes called
packer_worker_r. Shouldn''t I just be having two? What is the third
process
for?

Here is an extract of the output from my top command. The PIDs are 7084,
7085 and 7083.
===========================================  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES 
SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
10961 raghus    15   0  193m 110m 3508 S    0 10.8   0:52.87 mongrel_rails
10971 raghus    15   0  188m 107m 3440 S    0 10.5   0:50.61 mongrel_rails
11013 raghus    15   0  179m 103m 3348 S    0 10.1   0:45.18 mongrel_rails
* 7084 raghus    15   0  152m  73m 2036 S   11  7.2 116:31.68
packet_worker_r*
11129 raghus    15   0  134m  58m 3336 S    0  5.7   0:05.20 mongrel_rails
* 7085 raghus    15   0  131m  53m 2020 S    0  5.2   2:23.61
packet_worker_r*
 5094 mysql     15   0  215m  38m 3272 S    0  3.7  44:13.99 mysqld
* 7083 raghus    15   0 97.9m  36m 1192 S    0  3.5   2:28.98
packet_worker_r*
 7081 raghus    15   0 98.3m  34m 1036 S    0  3.4   3:21.40 ruby
10996 raghus    15   0 55820  12m 1340 S    0  1.2   0:06.16 god
11091 raghus    15   0 19748 3728 1384 S    0  0.4   0:00.07 bash
11088 root      16   0 51376 2532 1976 S    0  0.2   0:00.01 sshd
11330 postfix   16   0 38660 1992 1572 S    0  0.2   0:00.00 pickup
 7110 www-data  15   0 28568 1476  568 S    0  0.1   0:03.19 nginx
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Thanks,

Raghu
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I''m reposting in the hope that someone answers it this time:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/2008-July/001867.html
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On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Raghu Srinivasan
<raghu.srinivasan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I''m reposting in the hope that someone answers it this time:
> http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/2008-July/001867.html
>
Are you spawning processes at runtime?
Ususually, for bdrb, there will be:

1. Your workers
2. Log worker
3. Master process of backgroundrb

If you are seeing any other process, it might be because of you have
started it dynamically and forgot to delete it.