[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Memory Requirements

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

> I have asterisk installed on a Dell 2850 dual-Xeon 3.0Ghz box with 2GB
> of memory.  This is serving about 75 sip clients, Polycom500's and
> 600's.  We are running into problems with the memory.  Asterisk, right
> now, is using about 1.8GB of system memory.  I am using Asterisk  
> 1.0.7,
> Zaptel 1.0.7 with Digiums TE410 1xT1 RBS and 1xT1 PRI, Libpri 1.0.7 on
> Fedora Core 3.  My question; is this normal or do I need more  
> memory or
> is there a more serious underlying problem.

there's probably something fscked up.
try compiling with astmm enabled (see the makefile and look for  
MALLOC_DEBUG)

roy