Bret,<br><br>try:<br>ps aux --forest | grep opensips<br>that will show you parent and child processes in tree diagram and if any opensips master process is actually responsible for so many of them.<br>I agree that it is probably being spawned many times with a cron job, loop in the init script or a service like monit.<br>
<br>Dave<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Bret McDanel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trixter@0xdecafbad.com">trixter@0xdecafbad.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 19:37 +0100, Stanisław Pitucha wrote:<br>
> You mean that fifo ps returns a low number of processes? How are you<br>
> starting up opensips? What kind of scripts / process management are<br>
> you using?<br>
><br>
> I would guess that something you use to start up opensips is not<br>
> working as you expect and keeps respawning it all the time. Of course<br>
> new processes won't stay around for long because they'll try to bind<br>
> on some ports which are already taken. But if you're respawning often<br>
> enough, the total count could go into thousands.<br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
</div>The extra processes are because it is forking doing something, it is not<br>
multiple instances being started like you suggested. They all have the<br>
same parent ID.<br>
<br>
ps auxww | grep opensips | wc -l<br>
the list keeps growing. And if I kill opensips most die but not all,<br>
and those are only terminated with a kill -9.<br>
<br>
I show about 7 with opensipsctl ps but hundreds (it constantly grows<br>
they never die).<br>
<br>
They are clearly blocking somewhere, and it cannot be a syscall because<br>
a kill -9 cant take those out. I am about to dig in and try to find out<br>
where and more importantly why.<br>
<br>
<br>
I start opensips fork=no logstderr=yes debug=10 with only a -f and -P<br>
option in a standard shell.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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