[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk crash a box when log is size 2147483647

[Daniel Sloan]

Sounds like it might be at least somewhat related to...

http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000265

Crashing the box is not good...graceful failure, ok, sure, but
freezing the box just downright sucks.


James Sizemore wrote:

> When Asterisk log files reaches a size of  2147483647 bytes
> Asterisk will start using up all ram on the box till the box
> becomes unresponsive and will need to be rebooted. I have
> seen this happen twice now. Both times it was on a production
> box and I just deleted the log file so that Asterisk would start.
> In both cases the partition had plenty of physical space 30 gig
> free in this case, As I use ext3 the file system has no limit
> around 2 gigs.  I  will build a test box  Monday  to see if I can
> track down if this  is a  logger.c  problem  or a  Linux system
> library  problem.
> However my bigger concern was  that Asterisk displayed
> very bad behavior after the system rebooted as until I deleted
> the log file I could not start Asterisk, Not being able to log
> should not in my opinion stop a telco system from starting!
> <smile>
>
> Anyone seen a log file larger then 2147483647 bytes?
> If so what distro.
>
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