[Asterisk-Users] Best way to automatically stop and start Asterisk nightly

[Chuck Bunn]

Hi,

Thanks for the input. I will try your suggestions. By slowing down the 
server takes longer and longer to respond to prompts such as retrieving 
voice mail. I am recompiling my install this weekend as I have had a 
continued problem with logs (see other post) and this might be related 
to the problem. I will use your command to see if 'asterisk.pid' 
inflates over time...

Thanks Again

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:49:06AM -0700, Chuck Bunn wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I am planning on restarting asterisk nightly as I seem to be 
>>experiencing some sort of memory leak (Asterisk slows down over time). 
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>This is not an indication of a memory leak. The size of the asterisk
>process:
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>  ps `cat /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid` -o vsize -o rss
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>Do those inflate over time?
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>>I 
>>have reviewed the Asterisk suggestions for management and one item is 
>>the routine rebooting of Asterisk.  Since I have Asterisk 1.2.1 what is 
>>the recommend way to implement an automatic stop and start of asterisk 
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>asterisk -rx 'restart now' from a daily cron job?
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>Mind you, this is a bad patch and *NOT A FIX*.
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>>(there are changes in 1.2 with reload and restart) and is this enough or 
>>should I restart the hardware as well??
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>If you suspect a user-space memory leak than restarting the application
>should free that memory.
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>BTW: what do you mean by "slow down"?
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