asterisk users - Apr 2004 - multiple instances of asterisk spawning

Hello-

I have noticed that since i upgraded my kernel, asterisk spawns many 
copies (usually approximately 18) when starting up. It then runs fine, 
but there doesn't seem to be any reason for this behavior. I have tried 
moving between different kernel versions, and all but the stock fedora 
core 1 kernel exhibits the same behavior.

I have verified running this with both safe_asterisk (as I usually do) 
as well as manually at the command line with no difference in behavior.

root       747  0.0  0.2  4248 1136 ?        S    Apr23   0:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk
root       749  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       750  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       751  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       752  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       753  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:28 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       758  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       773  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:04 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       774  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       775  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       R    Apr23   3:05 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       776  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       777  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       781  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       782  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       783  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root       784  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr23   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root      6029  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    Apr26   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c
root      6243  0.0  0.1  2920  912 pts/0    S    01:09   0:00 asterisk 
-r
root      6244  0.0  1.5 116328 7656 ?       S    01:09   0:00 asterisk 
-vvvg -c

[root@phl-01 run]# cat /var/run/asterisk.pid
749

So asterisk does appear to be binding to the first instance (and 
reloading the config with changes does have an effect, proving that 
conclusion to a degree). I've also verified going back and forth 
between asterisk builds (I'm using the stable tree) yields no 
difference.

Strangely - if you look at the PID's, a few of the instances are out of 
sequence, and have been spawned after the system was running for a few 
days.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this?

-Steve

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:04, Steven Kokinos wrote:
> Hello-
> 
> I have noticed that since i upgraded my kernel, asterisk spawns many 
> copies (usually approximately 18) when starting up. It then runs fine, 
> but there doesn't seem to be any reason for this behavior. I have tried
> moving between different kernel versions, and all but the stock fedora 
> core 1 kernel exhibits the same behavior.
> 
> I have verified running this with both safe_asterisk (as I usually do) 
> as well as manually at the command line with no difference in behavior.
READ THE DAMN ARCHIVES, or at least semi recent discussions.

I'm betting you are a fairly new unix user as you don't seem to
recognize a multi threaded app. Asterisk is behaving similarly to
apache, starting many threads to service quite a few items at once.

Your kernel upgrade is probably not the only thing that has happened
here. It was commented recently in this mailing list that a recent
change in RH ha changed the default behaviour of ps. This change is why
you are now seeing something else.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>