statsite showing straming processes

[AshishVerma7690]

Hi There
I am getting strange streaming -c process while running statsite sink.

Below are my statsite settings
[statsite]
bind_address = 0.0.0.0
flush_interval = 60
log_facility = local0
log_level = INFO
stream_cmd = /usr/bin/graphitehooks/statsite-to-carbon
tcp_port = 8125
udp_port = 8125
use_type_prefix = 0

statsite-to-carbon file

exec /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/graphitehooks/graphite.py 127.0.0.1 2003 ''

when I list all process i get streaming -c /usr/bin/graphitehooks/statsite-to-carbon

root       610   609  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/graphitehooks/graphite.py 127.0.0.1 2003
root       629    55  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 streaming -c /usr/bin/graphitehooks/statsite-to-carbon
root       630   629  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/graphitehooks/graphite.py 127.0.0.1 2003
root       645    55  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:01 streaming -c /usr/bin/graphitehooks/statsite-to-carbon
root       646   645  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/graphitehooks/graphite.py 127.0.0.1 2003
root       660    55  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 streaming -c /usr/bin/graphitehooks/statsite-to-carbon
root       664    55  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 streaming -c /usr/bin/graphitehooks/statsite-to-carbon
root       665    55  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 streaming -c /usr/bin/graphitehooks/statsite-to-carbon
root       666   660  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/graphitehooks/graphite.py 127.0.0.1 2003
root       667   664  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/graphitehooks/graphite.py 127.0.0.1 2003
root       668   665  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/graphitehooks/graphite.py 127.0.0.1 2003

[johnkeates]

I think this is normal, what happens is that the main program reads your settings and then forks a process to run your desired streaming command. It then interacts with that process to get data in and out.

statsite/src/streaming.c

Line 41 in bf68fa2

pid_t pid = fork();

[AshishVerma7690]

@johnkeates Thanks for the info. But shouldn't it go away after finishing it? It is in the same state from the last couple of days.
In correct/good instance it run /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/graphitehooks/graphite.py 127.0.0.1 2003 and flush the metric.

[johnkeates]

Those will only clean up after the parent process has cleaned up and the child processes exit.
It seems that pid 55 is a parent process for many of those, perhaps those weren't closed properly?