[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0011999]: memory leak

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=11999 
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Reported By:                destiny6628
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   11999
Category:                   Core-General
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
Asterisk Version:           1.4.18 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             02-15-2008 01:20 CST
Last Modified:              03-27-2008 15:07 CDT
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Summary:                    memory leak
Description: 
hi we are using asterisk 1.4.18 , zaptel-1.4.8 and libpri 1.4.3 with 4 e1
card on ibm x3200 server and 90 active calls running on asterisk cli and
after some hours of dialing , swap memory starts getting used and asterisk
gives core dump .

Asterisk is running with safe_asterisk.

vmstat ouput is as follows 

[root at localhost cron]# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
-----cpu------
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id
wa st
 1  0    568  57308  44708 1848488    0    0    10   119 1293  509  2  2
95  0  0

Free -m is as follows 

[root at localhost cron]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2025       1974         51          0         43       1806
-/+ buffers/cache:        124       1901
Swap:         1983          0       1983


OPERATING SYSTEM is centos 5 and kernel version is [root at localhost cron]#
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-8.el5 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=1
SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT
2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Cannot do valgrind test as it put heavy load on the server and its a
production server .

RAM On the server is 2GB .

Only Asterisk application is running on that .



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 putnopvut - 03-27-08 15:07  
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falves11 are you using SIP channels? If you are, I may have a compromise
since you cannot run valgrind. If you can run tcpdump on the server with
Asterisk and capture all the SIP traffic and upload the resulting pcap
file, I can use a tool to generate a sipp scenario and possibly recreate
the crash locally. If I can do that, then I may be able to finally isolate
the problem areas and come up with a fix for this longstanding issue.

Of course, if you're not using SIP channels, then I'm at a loss again.
This issue is just not one that is solvable through static analysis of the
code. 

Issue History 
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03-27-08 15:07  putnopvut      Note Added: 0084670                          
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