[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk crash a box when log is size 2147483647

[James Sizemore]

You are correct about the relation. <smile>
The no HUP issue has stopped me from
using logrotate. Which would have avoided
this problem.

Daniel Sloan wrote:

> Sounds like it might be at least somewhat related to...
>
> http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000265
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> Crashing the box is not good...graceful failure, ok, sure, but
> freezing the box just downright sucks.
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> James Sizemore wrote:
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>> When Asterisk log files reaches a size of  2147483647 bytes
>> Asterisk will start using up all ram on the box till the box
>> becomes unresponsive and will need to be rebooted. I have
>> seen this happen twice now. Both times it was on a production
>> box and I just deleted the log file so that Asterisk would start.
>> In both cases the partition had plenty of physical space 30 gig
>> free in this case, As I use ext3 the file system has no limit
>> around 2 gigs.  I  will build a test box  Monday  to see if I can
>> track down if this  is a  logger.c  problem  or a  Linux system
>> library  problem.
>> However my bigger concern was  that Asterisk displayed
>> very bad behavior after the system rebooted as until I deleted
>> the log file I could not start Asterisk, Not being able to log
>> should not in my opinion stop a telco system from starting!
>> <smile>
>>
>> Anyone seen a log file larger then 2147483647 bytes?
>> If so what distro.
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