Number of socat processes growing

Issue

There is an alert about the number of processes being abnormally high (2000 processes)
Checking it from command line, we realized that socat was started again and again is that normal?

A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase, tools, and much more.

Here are the common uses of Markdown.

Code blocks

~~~
Code surrounded in tildes is easier to read
~~~

Links/URLs

[Red Hat Customer Portal](https://access.redhat.com)