[asterisk-users] High resident memory with 11.14.0 ?

James Lamanna jlamanna at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 08:02:06 CST 2014


cat /proc/cpuinfo lists 4 cores.
So even if that's not showing hyperthreading, maximum 8.
By your rule, that would be 8 cores * 0.5GB = 4GB memory.
I've seen resident memory be up over 6GB.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Freddi Hansen <fh at danovation.dk> wrote:

>
> Its up to 5.8G of resident memory with 28321 calls processed.
> The OOM killer is going to kill this soon at this rate (8GB RAM machine).
> This seems like a pretty serious problem.
> It looks like I'll need to restart asterisk every night....
>
> Hi the number of cpu cores that you see with top  times 512Mbyte is the
> level of ram that's needed
>
> e.g. a hp-gen8 with 2 octo core cpu's and hyperthreading enabled will be (
> 2 x 8 x 2  x 0,5 gb ) = 16 gb  + a bit exstra.
> So from start memory usage increases until it reaches 17.3 gb and then
> stabilizes. at that level.
> You can disables hypertreading and cut your ram usage to half of that.
>
> I can't see what hardware you are using but I think you need to check that
> the rule above fits your hardware.
>
> b.r.
> Freddi
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> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:53 AM, James Lamanna <jlamanna at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an Asterisk server that's been running now for around 2 days.
> I've noticed that the resident memory seems to be very high for its
> current call load:
>
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>                           18321 asterisk  20   0 8050m 5.2g 6968 S   13
> 66.2 363:11.80 asterisk
>
> $ asterisk -rx "core show channels"
>
> 24 active channels
>
> 12 active calls
>
> 25216 calls processed
>
>
>  This server has a bunch of IAXModems hooked up to it and is mainly used
> as a Fax gateway to hylafax. Is this normal? 5.2Gig of memory used after 2
> days with only 12 currently active calls?
>
> I am not using any realtime peers.
>
> There are 100 registered SIP peers on this server as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- James
>
>
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