Is this normal?

[phish420]

I am running sc_nsv on a remote linux server which feeds an instance of sc_serv on the same server. I then have a copy of steamcast relaying that feed. When I start the files, for instance sc_serv, everything runs fine for a while, but after some time the stream will quit and I have to kill everything and restart everything.

I noticed that right after starting the servers, if I do a 'ps x' I get the following:

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-bash-2.05b$ ps x

  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND

 2007 ?        S      0:23 [pure-ftpd]

 5470 ?        S      0:00 [pure-ftpd]

 5488 ?        S      0:00 [sshd]

 5489 pts/1    S      0:00 -bash

 5569 pts/1    S      0:00 ./sc_serv

 5570 pts/1    S      0:00 ./sc_serv

 5571 pts/1    S      0:00 ./sc_serv

 5572 pts/1    S      0:00 ./sc_serv

 5573 pts/1    S      0:00 ./sc_serv

 5574 pts/1    S      0:00 ./sc_serv

 5577 pts/1    S      0:00 ./sc_nsv

 5578 pts/1    S      0:00 ./steamcast

 5579 pts/1    S      0:00 ./steamcast

 5580 pts/1    S      0:00 ./steamcast

 5581 pts/1    S      0:00 ./steamcast

 5582 pts/1    S      0:00 ./steamcast

 5583 pts/1    R      0:00 ps x

-bash-2.05b$

Why are there so many instances of sc_serv and steamcast running? Is this normal? If I killall sc_serv (or steamcast), they all disappear (though sometimes I do have to killall several times), but then once I get them all to disappear, if I type 'nohup ./sc_serv &' and then 'ps x', I get the same thing - multiple instances. Just wondering if this is normal.