[OpenSIPS-Users] Process List Question

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Geoff,

There are two types of memory in opensips - pkg (private, per process) 
and shm (shared by all processes).
The -m parameter is for shared memory.

Regards,
Bogdan

geoffreymina at gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks. That makes a lot of sense. Looking at the output of my ps -ax, 
> each process appears to have been allocated 2048M of memory. I was 
> trying to start OpenSIPS with 2048M of memory allocated to the shared 
> pool using the "-m 2048" startup flag. Did I accomplish this, or did I 
> actually allocate 2048 x process threads?
>
> Geoff
>
> On Nov 9, 2008 3:21pm, Schumann Sebastian 
> <Sebastian.Schumann at t-com.sk> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> >
> > You can check the processes in detail using the FIFO command
> >
> > $ opensipsctl fifo ps
> >
> > (FIFO must be enabled).
> >
> >
> >
> > The processes are almost as Inaki described.
> >
> >
> >
> > In detail, it should be like this:
> >
> > 1. UDP WORKER (SIP) x children x interfaces
> >
> > children=10
> >
> > listen=10.0.0.1:5060
> >
> > listen=10.0.0.2:5060
> >
> > -> 20 processes finally, so children for each interface
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. TCP WORKER (SIP) x children
> >
> > tcp_children=5
> >
> > listen....... does not matter, fixed number of processes handles it. 
> If no tcp_children is set and TCP enabled, the children number is used.
> >
> > --> 5 processes
> >
> >
> >
> > 3. TCP MANAGER x1
> >
> >
> >
> > 4. TIMER PROCESSES (multiple possible)
> >
> >
> >
> > 5. ATTENDANT x1
> >
> >
> >
> > Sometimes, also modules can require additional processes.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From: users-bounces at lists.opensips.org on behalf of Iñaki Baz Castillo
> >
> > Sent: Sun 11/9/2008 21:13
> >
> > To: users at lists.opensips.org
> >
> > Subject: Re: [OpenSIPS-Users] Process List Question
> >
> >
> >
> > El Domingo, 9 de Noviembre de 2008, Geoffrey Mina escribió:
> >
> > > I just installed OpenSIPS and got everything up and running.  Can 
> somebody
> >
> > > please explain the output of "ps -ax" to me?  I don't understand 
> why there
> >
> > > are so many processes running.
> >
> > >
> >
> > >
> >
> > > [root at atl-shard4 log]# ps ax | grep opensips
> >
> > > 29371 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29373 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29374 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29375 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29376 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29377 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29378 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29379 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29380 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29381 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29382 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29383 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29384 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29385 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29386 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29387 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/opensips -m 2048
> >
> > > 29470 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep opensips
> >
> >
> >
> > It depends on the number of interfaces and transport protocol 
> (TCP/UDP) in
> >
> > which opensips is listening. If you set "children=4" and listen in 
> eth0 for
> >
> > TCP and UDP then you will have 4*2 + main process = 9 (well, it's 
> something
> >
> > like this but not exactly).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Iñaki Baz Castillo
> >
> >
> >
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