[asterisk-dev] 1.6.2 is broken

[David Backeberg]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Inbox<venefax at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need everybody to know that since version SVN-branch-1.6.2-r197190 the
> 1.62. branch is broken. For more than a week, I have been trying every day
> to upgrade one of my 12 Asterisk boxes, which never go above 100
> simultaneous calls, and every time after a few hours Asterisk stops talking
> to the network, so I have to go back and use version
> SVN-branch-1.6.2-r197190, which never stops working. I think we should stop
> here and resolve this. I can replicate it, but then what? I don't know what
> to do after I get it to fail. The Asterisk is working in the sense that I
> can log in and type "core restart now" It happens after dozen of thousands
> of calls, not immediately, but it always happens. I am probably the only guy
> who can replicate this since I pass more than 1 million calls daily. I have
> a load balancer made of OpenSips and 12 Asterisks to do the "real"
> processing.
> The version that works maybe higher than mine. I just had that one working
> fine in another box and went back to use it.

Have you noticed any pattern to this?
Open channels at the time, number of calls, number of hours up?
Your only 'moving part' is the asterisk revision?
When this happens, do the existing calls finish successfully, you just
can't get any new calls in?