[asterisk-users] Asterisk crashes on high IO load

[Thorsten Göllner]

Did you take a look at
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/asterisk/messages
?

Using Debian? Take a look at "iotop" (apt-get install iotop). There you 
can see information about which process consumes high io load.

Am 04.04.2011 17:23, schrieb Maximilian Grobecker:
> Hello Thorsten,
>
> the system has 4 GB RAM and about 2,5 GB free so swap space is not used
> or exhausted.
> Maybe the high load is not cause of this crashes but it's the only thing
> the crashes can be reproduced with.
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> Maximilian Grobecker
>
>
> Am 04.04.2011 16:03, schrieb Thorsten Göllner:
>> Take a look with "top" at your system when high io load is seen. Maybe
>> the machine is running out of ram and starts swapping?
>>
>> Am 04.04.2011 15:04, schrieb Maximilian Grobecker:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm writing to this list because I've got a very confusing issue with
>>> our Asterisk 1.8.3.2 installation.
>>>
>>> On high IO load on the hard drives Asterisk becomes instable and crashes
>>> after a few minutes.
>>> I tried to reproduce this by running bonnie++ on the hardware while
>>> making calls.
>>> The calls didn't get disturbed (no noises or crackles) but after about
>>> five minutes Asterisk suddenly crashed without any further error
>>> messages.
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you experiencing the same problem?
>>> I'm really confused now why Asterisk crashes...
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Maximilian Grobecker
>>>
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