[Asterisk-Users] Quick question regarding daily restart of asterisk

[Darren Sessions]

I can tell you from first hand experience that unless you've got +1000 
extensions completely configured, it's not a problem in the slightest.

After that, you'll start getting "to many files open" messages (on a 
vanilla system install) and the server will go temporarily unresponsive 
(which can be semi-remedied by modifying your OS's max open files - but 
even then * had problems).

On Oct 18, 2004, at 5:11 PM, Matt G wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a quick question regarding restarting (and/or 
> stopping/restarting) asterisk daily -- Should it be done?
>
> I've seen conflicting answers, some people have told me that the only 
> reason for asterisk to be stopped/started daily was for mpg123 causing 
> many childs, which has since been fixed using 'no buffer' or 'nb' 
> appended to the line in musiconhold.conf.
>
> Others have told me there is no reason whatsoever to restart/stop it, 
> yet there's instructions on how to do it on the wiki, are these just 
> outdated?
>
> Is there any other reason why one would want to stop and restart 
> asterisk daily? (or at any other scheduled time?)
>
> On a related note, is asterisk -rx "restart now" the equivalent of 
> asterisk -rx "stop now" && /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk (or whatever 
> command is used to restart it)?. I have a job cronned on a slackware 
> system to restart it daily using -rx "restart now" and it creates a 
> new PID, and Process Time, but when I run the same thing on Redhat 9 I 
> get an error saying that it exited on sig 13. I'm sure this is just a 
> redhat specific thing as this isn't the only problem I'm running into, 
> but it would be nice to find some answers.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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