asterisk users - Oct 2004 - MOH - 3 processes of mpg321 taking 20%CPU each - normal ?

Hi,

I have P4 2.8 HT machine with Asterisk. I spot 3 processes of mpg321 taking
20% of CPU each even when no call is made to Asterisk or any other PBX
activity is on ?

Is this behaviour normal ?

Regards,

Robert.

--On Friday, October 01, 2004 16:56 +0200 Robert Rozman 
<rozman@fri.uni-lj.si> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have P4 2.8 HT machine with Asterisk. I spot 3 processes of mpg321
> taking 20% of CPU each even when no call is made to Asterisk or any other
> PBX activity is on ?
>
> Is this behaviour normal ?
mpg123 shouldn't take nearly that much CPU, heck on an 800mhz Pii or Piii 
box (  I cant' rememebr which) it doesn't even hardly show up on
'top'

they will run all the time for every configured MoH you have but they 
shouldn't take up a significant amount of time individually.

You sure they're operating normally?  try adding some test extensions you 
can dial and push yourself onto MoH and make sure you can hear the muzak. 
Outside of that what distro/OS you running?  Specific versions of asterisk 
and mpg would also be beneficial to further debugging.

> I have P4 2.8 HT machine with Asterisk. I spot 3 processes of mpg321 taking
> 20% of CPU each even when no call is made to Asterisk or any other PBX
> activity is on ?
> 
> Is this behaviour normal ?
> 
No, stop asterisk, kill the mpg processes, and restart asterisk. Should
see two mpg's.