On Wednesday 22 December 2010 08:23:19 MrHanMan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Steve Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 December 2010 22:06, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Monday 20 December 2010 14:39:36 Ernie Dunbar wrote: > >>> We have an issue with our Asterisk install where Asterisk produces > >>> many Zombie processes (on the order of several hundred per minute) > >>> until either the Asterisk server is restarted (and the zombies die > >>> a natural death), or the kernel runs out of PID space (happens > >>> within hours) and brings the system to a halt. > >>> > >>> This problem only happens when the server is under some non-trivial > >>> load. We were testing this server with 8 SCCP phones, making up to > >>> five simultaneous calls through the DAHDI interface (a Digium > >>> Wildcard TE410P/TE405P (1st Gen)). Once our customers (nearly all > >>> SIP clients) start logging on and we get around 7 or 8 simultaneous > >>> DAHDI calls, Asterisk starts producing zombie processes at a high > >>> rate. > >> > >> I know what the issue is. Please open a report on > >> https://issues.asterisk.org and I'll get a patch uploaded pronto. > > > > Please let us know the issue number once raised - I'd like to follow > > this one. > > I happened to see it pop up on the bug tracker. Issue #0018515. Very > funny error message in the patch.
It's a forward-port of a section of code that was in res_agi in 1.4. It was no longer needed in res_agi because AGIs can now continue to interact with Asterisk after a hangup event, transitioning gracefully into DeadAGI. -- Tilghman -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
