<p class="MsoPlainText"></p><p class="MsoPlainText"></p><p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks for the response Mr. Madsen... </p><p class="MsoPlainText">Typically we leave verbosity set at 20... with debugging disabled. (0). It is a somewhat older version of asterisk.. and I don't follow the release cycle too closely.. I'll go digging through the release notes and see if I can identify any notes regarding this specific issue... </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Is anyone experiencing this on a later release..? </p><p class="MsoPlainText">We don't really see a point in upgrading unless it adds a feature or the upgrade is known to resolve a problem.. upgrading for the sake of upgrading hasn't been something we practice.... and, knock on wood, it's been extremely stable with this one exception... oh!! i forgot, DNS, or the lack thereof, also tends to kill asterisk... kill as in, freeze solid...., so, with these two exceptions... it's solid as a rock.. </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Connected to Asterisk 1.4.16.1 currently running on sw0 (pid = 2421)</p><p class="MsoPlainText">Verbosity is at least 20</p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] On Behalf Of Leif Madsen<br>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:00 AM<br>
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br>
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Extensions Reload | Asterisk Freezes ? 1.4</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Positively Optimistic wrote:</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> We have what I consider to be a large dialplan (-=
1501 extensions (2559 </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> priorities) in 99 contexts. =-)</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> If we have more than 10 or so channels up (all SIP,
no TDM) and issue </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> the "extensions reload" command..<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>quite often, asterisk will completely </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> freeze up...<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>requiring us to either kill and restart the process or </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> restart the box...<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> I should probably also share that when watching the
log files, at the </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> time the "extensions reload" command
executes...<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>there are no </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> exceptions and/or issues reported while parsing the
dialplan...</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Has anyone in the community experienced this..<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>and/or have any </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> suggestions ?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Do you have a particular version this is happening on?
Does it happen on all </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">versions? When you say it freezes up, does it happen for
a long time, or a short </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">time (i.e. are you restarting because you can't wait for
it to finish reloading, </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">or whatever it is doing)?</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">When you are reloading the dialplan, do you have
verbosity enabled or disabled? </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I find calls can be locked from doing anything while the
dialplan is reloading, </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">and if you're doing it remotely with verbosity enabled,
this can make it take </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">longer than necessary.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If Asterisk locks up, perhaps it is some sort of deadlock.
There is some good </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">information recently added that should help you gather
debugging information if </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">you plan on filing a bug report
(<a href="http://issues.asterisk.org">http://issues.asterisk.org</a>)</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/trunk/doc/HOWTO_collect_debug_information.txt">http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/trunk/doc/HOWTO_collect_debug_information.txt</a></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/trunk/doc/backtrace.txt">http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/trunk/doc/backtrace.txt</a></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Leif.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
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