<div dir="ltr">I found the cause of this. My OpenSIPS server has gone ballistic and is running hundreds of processes/instances concurrently; please see this screenshot: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7o7fsuab1jggrsh/Screenshot%202017-08-10%2007.28.15.png?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/7o7fsuab1jggrsh/Screenshot%202017-08-10%2007.28.15.png?dl=0</a><div><br></div><div>Even after I kill all the processes, hundreds of processes start again whenever I start OpenSIPS in any way.</div><div><br></div><div>Below is my opensips.service file but the same occurs if starting OpenSIPS using 'opensipsctl start':</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">[Unit]<br>Description=OpenSIPS is a very fast and flexible SIP (RFC3261) server<br>After=network.target mariadb.service multi-user.target </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">[Service]<br>Type=forking<br>User=root<br>Group=root<br>EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/opensips<br>PIDFile=/var/run/opensips.pid<br>ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/opensips -P /var/run/opensips.pid -f /usr/local/etc/opensips/opensips.cfg $OPTIONS<br>ExecStartPre=/usr/local/sbin/opensips -c -f /usr/local/etc/opensips/opensips.cfg<br>Restart=always<br>TimeoutStopSec=30s<br>LimitNOFILE=1048576<br>LimitNPROC=1048576<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">[Install]<br>WantedBy=multi-user.target</blockquote><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Please advise how to fix this urgently.</div><div><br></div><div>Nabeel</div></div>