[asterisk-users] valgrind + Asterisk

[yusuf]

Hi,

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:37:52PM +0200, yusuf wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>has anybody got valgring to work with asterisk
> 
> 
> Yes
> 
> 
>>i do a
>>-- valgrind --tool=memcheck -v asterisk -cvvvvvvvv
>>
>>then Asterisk just dies.
> 
> 
> What version of asterisk? Did you use any special build options to build
> it?
> 

asterisk 1.2.1
I went into asterisk source and did a 'make valgrind'

> 
>>The problem I have is that on the box I have Asterisk running, the memory 
>>is reported as being used up, then when there is liitle ram left, the box 
>>just hangs.  
> 
> 
> What do you mean?
> 

Asterisk has just hung now. When I go asterisk -rvvv i only get


Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'show warranty' for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
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=========================================================================

even a killall asterisk does not help.


              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1035276     320380     714896          0      61272     190624
-/+ buffers/cache:      68484     966792
Swap:      2096472          0    2096472



> tzafrir at frenkel:~$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        237124     231096       6028          0     35700      36992
> -/+ buffers/cache:     158404      78720
> Swap:       976744      69024     907720
> 
> This box aparantly has only 6028kb availble. However if you ignore
> memory that the kernel temporarily uses for its own optimizations
> (buffering and such) it actually has almost 78720 kb free. 
> 
> 
>> So Asterisk might have a memory leak, and I am trying to find 
>>it.
> 
> 
> To debug memory allocations, build asterisk with memory debugging.
> Probably a lot less overhead than valgrind. Look for "astmm".
> 

thanks, I will try this  :)


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thanks,
yusuf

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