[Asterisk-Users] asterisk memory requirements

[Steve Kann]

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

>>> can someone please tell me how much memory asterisk requires? I'm 
>>> running 1.0.7 and after just a couple of days uptime, this is the 
>>> process as reported from ps axfv
>>>
>>> 13766 ? S< 0:15 0 605 1365974 1265468 61.0 \_ asterisk -vvvg -c
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It would appear to require about 1.4GB, based on all the information 
>> you've presented.
>
>
> I'm aware of what the numbers say, but having around 50 concurrent 
> calls, doing some g.729 and having been up for a couple of days, then 
> this looks an awful lot. now it's down to 30 calls, but it looks like 
> it's still climbing
>
> 13766 ? S< 0:15 0 605 1448722 1348744 65.0 \_ asterisk -vvvg -c
>
> this is 1.0.7 with mysql sipfriends and some agi, cdr -> mysql (mysql 
> driver - not odbc)
>

In this case, it certainly looks like a significant memory leak of some 
sort. Seems like your VMSize is about 10 times too big.

-SteveK