[Freeswitch-users] When does Freeswitch starts to fork processes?

[Steven Ayre]

Check the status of the child process if you gcore or strace it.


On 4 April 2014 13:50, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:

> when does Freeswitch decides to fork processes
>
>
> That's going to be rather dependant on your use-case. For ordinary call
> bridging it has no need to. You could grep the source code to find out.
> It'll need to any time you run an external process, such as when sending
> email (I assume it's wrapping sendmail or similar?).
>
> what can cuase system() to hang?
>
>
> Since system() doesn't return until the child process is completed,
> anything causing that child process to hang would.
>
>
> On 3 April 2014 09:43, Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>   I am trying to chase a problem hapenning from time to time. The problem
>> is that freeswitch starts acting slowly, it starts forking processes and I
>> have to restart it.
>>
>> It did not happen with 1.0.x, but it happens with various 1.2.x; it
>> happened today a few times on 1.2.23 so I reverted to 1.2.22 to see whether
>> it helps in the meantime.
>>
>> Using GCORE on one of the new processes I've found that at least one of
>> them is hung in system() call used by voicemail to email voicemail
>> messages. If I kill the process then the Email is sent.
>>
>> So, when does Freeswitch decides to fork processes and what can cuase
>> system() to hang?
>>
>> I do not open JIRA yet as I cannot jump to the git HEAD (production
>> system and have to do things very carefully...
>>
>>           Thanks, __Yehavi:
>>
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