[asterisk-users] Asterisk routine maintenance activities

[Darrick Hartman]

Rob Hillis wrote:
> Kurian Thayil wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:24 +1000, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote:
>>   
>>> Daily Asterisk restart
>>>     
>> Do you think its mandatory in production env?????
> 
> Daily?  No.  However, after implementing a weekly restart of Asterisk,
> I've found the instance of lockups and CPU utilisation spikes have
> decreased significantly.

Unless you're using some unstable modules, there really should be no 
need to restart Asterisk.  Is there a certain activity that is causing 
these lockups?  I have low power systems which haven't had Asterisk 
restarted in months many times.  Granted, these are mostly low call 
volume systems, but unless there is a memory leak, you should not needed 
to restart the Asterisk process.  (my guess is one of the modules you 
are using has some sort of problem).

Darrick