[asterisk-users] How to get asterisk to take a dump?

[Atis Lezdins]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 20:48:37 Steve Edwards wrote:
> install -- 1.2.7.1, but it has custom code that needs to be
> updated before moving to a more recent release.
>
> I'm assuming that 100mb is indicative of a memory leak (probably in my
> code).
>
> How can I get a dump (preferably without disrupting production) so I can
> poke around in it (using gdb) and what's a good strategy for finding
> memory leaks?
>
> Thanks in advance,

I think, there's no way you can get a coredump without interrupting process.

However you can do "killall -5 asterisk". That would send a "Trace/Breakpoint" 
signal to asterisk and it would crash immediately to core - so you can play 
with it in gdb.

Regards,
Atis

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