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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=en-IL link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We have an occasional situation where the one FreeSWITCH process suddenly have a child process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We do not know what circumstances may have caused it. Happens every few days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The child process consumes memory like the normal process, which is a significant amount. It doesn’t consume CPU.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In the case that we didn’t restart FreeSWITCH after the problem happened, later it happened again and we had 2 child processes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>When killing the child process, FreeSWITCH seems to continue working normally, but this is not a thing we’d do on our production machines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Happens on one specific FreeSWITCH, our other machines do not show this behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The FreeSWITCH log for the time the child process starts shows initialization messages as when the normal process starts, but nothing that could tell us why the child starts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>After noticing the issue on FreeSWITCH 1.8.5, we upgraded to 1.10.5 via “apt” (didn’t build from source) but the problem is still there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>O/S: Debian 9.13 (we didn’t upgrade it when upgraded FreeSWITCH)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>FreeSWITCH: 1.10.5-release-17-25569c1631~64bit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We use FusionPBX to operate the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>“ps -ef” shows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'>UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'>freeswi+ 470 23710 0 11:25 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/freeswitch -ncwait -nonat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'>freeswi+ 23710 1 62 Aug26 ? 1-11:31:26 /usr/bin/freeswitch -ncwait -nonat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>“top” shows<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'>23710 freeswi+ -2 19 3627008 1.543g 13972 S 110.7 20.7 2136:50 freeswitch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'> 470 freeswi+ 39 19 3615296 1.507g 884 S 0.0 20.2 0:00.02 freeswitch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>An advice will be appreciated,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Ziv<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>