[asterisk-dev] Asterisk freeze and... a catch-22.

[Ryan Wagoner]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Kirill Katsnelson <kkm at adaptiveai.com> wrote:
> We are running 1.8.1.1 on a prod server that handles only a hundred calls an
> hour or so. The server freezes: sometimes works for 2 weeks, sometimes locks
> up twice daily.
>
> I got backtraces and lock logs. While I was chasing them (2 weeks lost
> because of incorrect instructions to the ops etc), Digium stopped accepting
> bug reports against 1.8.1.1.
>
> Ok, I decided to bite the bulled and upgraded to 1.8.3 rc2... only to find
> it is broken badly enough so we can't use it (I logged an issue 18729, but
> that's not a point here). Here's the catch-22: I cannot repro in a newer
> version, as this requires weeks of real life load, and cannot normally open
> an issue in mantis for it.
>

Asterisk 1.8.2.3 doesn't have patch for issue 18480 which caused your
issue 18729. You could also revert the patch applied for 18480 against
1.8.3-rc2.

Ryan