[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on FreeBSD 4.10 dies

[Richard Scobie]

Dr. Rich Murphey wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
>>[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Arjan
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>>On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 at 15:39 -0500, Dr. Rich Murphey wrote:
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>>>You might check login class in login.conf for the user that invokes 
>>>asterisk.  Setting cputime=unlimited may help.
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>>This will prevent the kernel from killing the process but I'm 
>>puzzled by the load Asterisk generates on a AMD XP+ 2000 cpu. 
>>While running the box goes to 40%, even though Asterisk is 
>>doing nothing (well at least: not handling calls, etc).
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> That sounds like a bug.  One should be able to attach to the 
> process in gdb, stop the process and see where it's looping.
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> Rich
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A slightly similar observation, which I assume is normal as the boxes 
work fine, is both my P4 2.4GHz Linux asterisks spike up to 100% load, 
about every 30 seconds, with no calls being handled.

The boxes are only running asterisk, ntpd, sshd and the core 2.4 kernel 
services and the load can be observed in top by noting the system CPU 
usage figure in the upper part of the top display - no CPU usage is 
shown by any of the listed processes.

As I say, it is probably normal, but I've wondered what causes it.

Richard