[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk freezing HELP

[James Sizemore]

Do you type "reload" at the cli a few times a day?
If so try not reloading Asterisk  and I'll bet Asterisk
stop blocking.  If you don't normally reload  the box
you will need to trouble shot normally.

mattf wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have had several instances over the last month of Asterisk freezing,
>sometimes after 12 hours, sometimes after 8 days. The common elements are
>that:
>- all Zap channels lock[hangups don't register and no new calls in or out]
>- no new in/outbound calls can be made on Zap or SIP channels
>- people who are still connected to calls can continue to talk
>- in the CLI interface, you can "show channels" and view other info like
>"sip show peers", but you cannot do a "stop now" only way to stop asterisk
>process is a kill -9
>- all attempted connections to the manager interface time out
>- the processor load and RAM usage on the machine is low.
>
>I am experiencing these freezes on two separate identical RedHat 9 machines.
>On each I have 4 T1s connected and a usual concurrent call volume of 45
>Zap/SIP conversations at once 14 hours a day. The processor load is never
>that high and the RAM usage is less than half.
>
>There are never any consistent errors or warnings in the logs or the CLI.
>
>I do have several AGI perl scripts in the dialplan and the SIP phones that
>connect are almost all Grandstream 102's, That's all I can think of that may
>be causing any problems. I have mpg123/musiconhold deactivated.
>
>Has this happened to anyone else out there?
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions? or ideas as to what may be causing it?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>MATT---
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