[asterisk-ss7] libss7 stability issues

[Matthew Fredrickson]

Andreas Kaufmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have encountered stability problems when using libss7. I am using 
> "sipp" to generate multiple calls over the link. After a few hundred 
> test calls asterisk randomly stops working and the asterisk process does 
> not exist any more in the unix process list.
> 
> A second problem I have encountered is that after generating a lot of 
> concurrent calls,  some of the ss7 channels on the linkset are reported 
> to be busy ("app_dial.c: Unable to create channel of type 'zap' (cause 
> 34 - Circuit/channel congestion"), although this channels were not in 
> use any more. I have to restart asterisk to get this channels free again.
> 
> I have tried the following configuration:
> 
> OS: OpenSuse 10.3
> Zaptel: SVN-branch-1.4-r4315
> libss7: SVN-trunk-r171
> Asterisk: SVN-trunk-r118178M
> DIGIUM TE220P 2xE1 Card
> 
> According to Matthews latest NEWS file (NEWS-05-30-2008) if have also tried:
> 
> libss7: SVN-trunk-r176
> Zaptel: 1.4.11
> Asterisk: 1.6.0
> 
> Can anyone recommend a stable version for libss7/zaptel/asterisk? Would 
> it be better to use another distribution, e.g. Fedora?

You might check to see if it is dumping core somewhere so we can get a 
backtrace of why it failed.  If you start asterisk with the -g flag, it 
will cause Asterisk to core dump when it crashes.  Then you can get a 
backtrace of it's failure point with gdb.

-- 
Matthew Fredrickson
Software/Firmware Engineer
Digium, Inc.