[Asterisk-bsd] Crashing on SMP system

[Richard Neese]

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 20:45:40 Tim St. Pierre wrote:
> Please forgive the vagueness of this problem.  If anyone may have an
> insight, but needs more information, let me know what this information is
> and how to get it.  I'll gladly post what I can.
>
> I have been running Asterisk 1.4.17 on FreeBSD 6.3.
>
> The system is a Dual 1.4 GHz Compaq DL360 (Intel Xeon) server, with a 4
> port analog card and a single FXO module installed.
>
> Zaptel is 1.4.6
>
> After about 14-17 days of usage, I notice a slightly elevated load average.
> It gets up to about .20 when it normally sits around 0.01
>
> Once the load average has gone up, I know that the system will crash in the
> next day or two.  It usually panics when a MeetMe conference is closed, and
> says nothing in the log files about this (I have figured it out by trial
> and error).  The machine automatically reboots, and gets back to normal
> again (as long as the watchdog figures it out).
>
> The amount of uptime seems inversely proportional to the amount of MeetMe
> usage.  I have another identical installation that is currently at 60 days
> of uptime, with no issues.  This machine also handles calls, but no MeetMe.
>  The second machine has the same hardware and software.  If I do a lot of
> conferencing on the second machine, it crashes in the same manner.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> What further steps could I take to narrow the problem down more so that
> somebody with programming skills (not me) could make short work of this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Tim

if you can get app_conf and replace meet me. and do away with th need for 
zaptel timing
also get the svn of the zaptel src it has updates in it.