I have a master and multiple slave machines. The slaves are configured to start via ssh from the master. Initially, there is a single java process running the slave.jar. Occasionally, I'll login to a slave and find that there are 2 or even sometimes 3 java processes running slave.jar. This is while no jobs are running.
How many slave processes should be running when the slave is idle?
tomcat 54054 53913 0 Sep02 ? 00:00:00 bash -c cd "/var/hudson" && java -jar slave.jar
tomcat 54055 53914 0 Sep02 ? 00:00:00 bash -c cd "/var/hudson" && java -jar slave.jar
tomcat 54080 54054 1 Sep02 ? 01:11:45 java -jar slave.jar
tomcat 54081 54055 2 Sep02 ? 01:44:17 java -jar slave.jar