Seeing many nova-conductor processes, is this normal?

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Issue

  • We also see many nova-conductor worker processes:
[root@rhosp-ctrl~]# ps -ax | grep conductor
18149 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18156 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18157 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18158 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18159 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18160 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18161 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18162 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18163 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18164 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18165 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18166 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18167 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18168 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18169 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18170 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18171 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18172 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18173 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18174 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18175 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18176 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18177 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18178 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18179 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18180 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18181 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18182 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18183 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18184 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18185 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18186 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
18187 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-conductor
19208 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto conductor

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0

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