On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:28:29 -0600, Tilghman Lesher <tilgh...@meg.abyt.es> wrote: >1. uClinux has no fork(2) call, only a vfork(2) call. Therefore, these >amount to multiple processes sharing the same address space. In fact, >it's very likely that these are multiple threads, not processes at all. >2. The unit is in kilobytes. These "processes" take up 12 MB, not 12KB.
Thanks for the info. The appliance only has 64MB, and with all those threads running along with OpenVPN, SSHd, and DHCPd, there are still about 30MB free, so I guess those items in "ps" aren't really using that much memory: root:/etc/asterisk> ps aux PID Uid VSZ Stat Command ... 527 root 12022 S asterisk -f 528 root 12022 S asterisk -f 530 root 12022 S asterisk -f 531 root 12022 S asterisk -f 532 root 12022 S asterisk -f 533 root 12022 S asterisk -f 534 root 12022 S asterisk -f 535 root 12022 S asterisk -f 536 root 12022 S asterisk -f 537 root 12022 S asterisk -f 538 root 12022 S asterisk -f 539 root 12022 S asterisk -f 540 root 12022 S asterisk -f 541 root 12022 S asterisk -f 542 root 12022 S asterisk -f 543 root 12022 S asterisk -f 544 root 12022 S asterisk -f 545 root 12022 S asterisk -f 546 root 12022 S asterisk -f 547 root 12022 S asterisk -f 548 root 12022 S asterisk -f -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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