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Hi,

 I'm using asterisk 1.2.7.1 (OS : CentOS 4.3 kernel 2.6.9). When asterisk gets started it's forking nearly 45 processes on zero call. I don't understand why suddenly this is happening?

Can anyone throw some light?

Thanks in Advance,
Rajesh.

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[quote=“rajeshcr”]Hi,

 I'm using asterisk 1.2.7.1 (OS : CentOS 4.3 kernel 2.6.9). When asterisk gets started it's forking nearly 45 processes on zero call. I don't understand why suddenly this is happening?

Can anyone throw some light?

Thanks in Advance,
Rajesh.[/quote]

Each module that Asterisk loads starts a thread. Take a look at /etc/asterisk/modules.conf to understand what you are loading, are not loading, or how to configure what not to load if you do not need it.

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Also, You are probably using pthreads and each thread there shows up as a process this is not really anything to be concerned about. as the previous poster said, check modules.conf to see what you are loading and noload anything you dont need/want.

Also you might want to look at using NPTL if the correct glibc etc builds are available on your system this can greatly improve the performance of multi-threaded software