[Asterisk-Users] Memory-leak 1.2.7.1

[Steve Totaro]

Hardware platform and specs?  Call volume?  Any messages in your logs?  
I had this problem on an Itanium2 box, went away when I "downgraded" to 
a Xeon.

Attilla de Groot wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> First off all, this is my first mail to this mailing-list, so if I am
> doing something wrong please tell me. And apologies for my english in
> advance, it's not my native language.
>
> Anyway, I have few machines running Asterisk 1.2.7.1. All machines but
> one are Gentoo (other one is Debian). The problem is that Asterisk keeps
> eating my memory.
>
> Just random (mostly at night) all my free memory is gone and of course
> Asterisk doesn't work anymore (no moh, queues doesn't work etc.). At
> first I didn't knew for sure it was Asterisk causing this problem, so I
> made sure Asterisk was the only extensive application running (no
> apache, mysql etc.) and the problem kept returning. And of course if I
> didn't happen when I won't start Asterisk.
>
> So, this left me only one conclusion. The application with the memory
> leak is Asterisk. So I thought of these things:
>
> - Problem with linux distribution ?
> Nope, got 2 different distributions and happens on both ?
> - Bug with mpg123 ?
> Nope, used native Asterisk moh thing, still happens.
> - Memory leak due to a loop in my configuration ?
> Nope, 3 diffrent configurations, 2 of them are _really_ simple (like 3
> context and some dial strings :P).
>
>
> Since I'm no programmer and not really a bug-hunter I'm out of idea's
> right now. The only solution for me nog is to reboot the machines if and
> when it happens. I was unable to find a similar problem in the
> mailinglist and nobody had the same problem in the irc channel.
>
> So I'm hoping somebody has a solution of a tip for me.
>
>
> Greetings,
> Attilla de Groot
>
>
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