[Asterisk-Dev] Memory Leak in Stable?

Greg Boehnlein damin at nacs.net
Wed Jul 20 02:04:22 MST 2005


Hello,
	I have a client that has a fairly small installation (20 SIP 
Phones) that is running Stable. Asterisk appears to be consuming large 
quantities of memory, and growing uncontrollably to the point where after 
about 6 weeks the box starts to swap itself to death. I've been keeping my 
eye on it today, and in the last 12 hours, it has grown by about 8 
megabytes, and there has been no-one in the office placing any calls.

[root at pbx tftpboot]# asterisk -rvc
Asterisk CVS-v1-0-07/03/05-05:09:22, Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Digium.
Written by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk CVS-v1-0-07/03/05-05:09:22 currently running on pbx 
(pid = 731)
nection> 
Verbosity is at least 3

[root at pbx tftpboot]# top

 04:57:40  up 16 days, 23:44,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
48 processes: 46 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
           total    0.2%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%   99.8%
Mem:  1025700k av,  630604k used,  395096k free,       0k shrd,   84032k buff
       406804k active,              76016k inactive
Swap: 2096472k av,       0k used, 2096472k free                  157732k 
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
  731 root      15   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:01   0 asterisk
  734 root      25   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk
  743 root      25   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk
  744 root      15   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   1:05   0 asterisk
  746 root      25   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk
  750 root      15   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.1 25.2   0:43   0 asterisk
  760 root      15   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk
  763 root      15   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2  15:43   0 asterisk
  766 root      15   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk
  778 root      25   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk
  780 root      15   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk
  781 root      25   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk
  782 root      15   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk
  790 root      15   0  252M 252M  3860 S     0.0 25.2   0:00   0 asterisk

What can I do to debug this? This is a production system, so during 
business hours I can't muck about with it, but after-hours I can pretty 
much do whatever I want to it... I just need some guidance.

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