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

Marc Blanchet marc.blanchet at viagenie.ca
Fri Jan 5 17:00:14 MST 2007


Le 07-01-05 à 11:28, Andre Courchesne a écrit :

> How do I go about compiling Asterisk with "memory allocation  
> debugging support" ?

make menuselect
choose Compiler Flags
choose MALLOC_DEBUG
x
make

Marc.

>
> 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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