[asterisk-dev] 0008660: Possible memory leak doing only inbound SIP handling

[Andre Courchesne]

Ok, found the line in the Makefile. I'm recompiling and launching a new 
test.

Andre Courchesne wrote:
> How do I go about compiling Asterisk with "memory allocation debugging 
> support" ?
>
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:03:51AM -0500, Andre Courchesne wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>  I would like to get feedbacks on the following bug:
>>>
>>>       http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=8660
>>>
>>>
>>>  When trying to profile our Asterisk distribution, we ran test where 
>>> a server would initiate SIP calls to a test server (UIT) running our 
>>> distribution and the latest Asterisk packages. We found that doing 
>>> only inbound SIP calls handling, the UIT free memory would slowly 
>>> get lower and lower.
>>>
>>>  We performed the test against an earlier version of our 
>>> distribution running Asterisk 1.0x as well as on Trixbox 2.0Beta2 
>>> and found similar results. We also performed the same tests on 
>>> AsteriskNOW 1.4.0Beta2 with again similar results.
>>>
>>>  Thanks for any feedback.
>>>     
>>
>> First off, you can get more accurate data from 'ps u UID_OF_ASTERISK'
>>
>> The UID of Asterisk is probably in the pid file under /var/run . . But
>> those numbers are still rather crude.
>>
>> In addition, if you suspect a memory leak, it would help to rebuild
>> asterisk with memory allocation debugging support. This will allow you
>> to pin-point exactly from which allocation in the code the leak comes.
>>
>>   
>
>


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