asterisk users - May 2005 - Spawn extension -----what does this mean ?

for every call, * gives out :
 Spawn extension (default, 00xxxxxxxxx, 3) exited non-zero on 
'SIP/201.50.117.161-081628e0' 
    Spawn extension -----what does this mean ? how to avoid this ?
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