[asterisk-users] Crash related to "asterisk -rx" ?

[Jean-Denis Girard]

Hi list,

Last Friday, an Asterisk server became unresponsive after ~8,5 months of 
smooth operation (~320000 calls). Server did reply to pings, but no ssh, 
no more console login. Also Asterisk no longer took calls, but ISDNguard 
watchdog was still alive. Looking at the logs after reboot, I could not 
find anything significant, except in a file created by the following 
command via a cron job:

date >> /var/log/asterisk/calls.log ; asterisk -rx "show channels 
concise" >> /var/log/asterisk/calls.log

Two days before the crash, the calls.log file started to be filled with 
the Asterisk console messages. I suspect this is what caused the server 
crash. Anybody seen this before, is this a known problem with "asterisk 
-rx" commands?

Asterisk is version 1.2.15 (I can provide more details if needed).


Thanks,
-- 
Jean-Denis Girard

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