[asterisk-users] Asterisk server crashes after two years

[Ronald Wiplinger]

Michael Welter wrote:
> My Asterisk colo server has been up for almost two years.  Today it 
> crashed.  When I gave the reboot command, it crashed so hard that it 
> had to be power cycled.  I wasn't in attendance, but I can speculate 
> that it had a kernel panic during the shutdown.
>
> Yesterday I added a PHP agi script, and it had been user over 1000 
> times before the crash.  I don't think the Linux/Asterisk crash is 
> coincidental.
>
> Can someone give me things to look for?  I'm watching memory, and it 
> has 750MB free (out of 1GB).  When I restart Asterisk, I see 19 
> processes--is this normal?  What else should I be doing to narrow down 
> on this problem.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
Have you checked the log files?
Do you use Real-time? Is your database ok?
Have you checked the hard disk space?

2 years Asterisk sounds "strange", since I can remember there was a bug 
with the date a year ago. If you have not upgraded, than this bug is 
still in your code. Maybe you just meant no reboot for two years.

bye

Ronald