<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I have added the second suggestion you made, so far I done it this way because it was easier to get the result. Is it correct how I have done it and if so does it take less resources the other way you suggest because at this stage I don't yet that<br><br><br>loop do<div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>event =
con.recvEvent</div> Signal.trap('CHLD', 'IGNORE')<div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>pid = fork do<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br><br> </span>end</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Process.detach(pid)</div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div>end</div><br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 29/3/11, Anthony Minessale <i><anthony.minessale@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Anthony Minessale <anthony.minessale@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] recvEvent causes zombies process<br>To: "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org><br>Date: Tuesday, 29 March, 2011, 15:52<br><br><div id="yiv1600971574">you are calling fork every time you receive an event.<div>you need to exit the process from the child and
reap or ignore it on the parent.</div><div><br><br><div class="yiv1600971574gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Ejay Greeves <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ejay.greeves@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=ejay.greeves@yahoo.com">ejay.greeves@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<tbody><tr><td style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;"><div>I am wanting to code an inbound event program.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In order to see why I am getting zombie processes I stripped out all my code and used the minimum skeletcon code to do a test.</div><div><br></div><div>con = ESL::ESLconnection.new('127.0.0.1', '8021', 'ClueCon')</div>
<div>con.events("plain", "CHANNEL_HANGUP_COMPLETE")</div><div><br></div><div>loop do</div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>event =
con.recvEvent</div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>pid = fork do</div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br><br> </span>end</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Process.detach(pid)</div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div>end</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This code does nothing but wait for an incoming event, creates an fork then detach however it still produces a defunct process.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think con.recvEvent is the cause?</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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