[asterisk-users] restart asterisk daily

[Rilawich Ango]

Actually, I donno it is a memory leak or not.  I have a server only
running asterisk.  As time goes by, the free memory shown in the top
is decreased.  After I restart the asterisk, the free memory comes
again.  That's why I wonder if regular restart asterisk is necessary.
Use a crontab to restart asterisk is a way to do it but you have to
maintain a crontab.  Is it possible to use logrotate instead?  Or
other better way?

On Feb 13, 2008 3:26 PM, Atis Lezdins <atis at iq-labs.net> wrote:
>
> On 2/13/08, Rilawich Ango <maillisting at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >   I found that there will be a memory leak if asterisk running day by
> > day without restart.  Is it good to restart asterisk service daily?
> > What is the better way to restart it daily like apache?
> > ango
> >
>
> I have cron script that restarts daily by /etc/init.d/asterisk restart
> - that way asterisk is completely stopped and then started again. Long
> ago, for 1.2 this was helping to reduce crashes on working time.
> Anyway - i prefer to restart if i have some inactivity time anyway,
> rather than have a small chance that it will crash while lot's of
> calls are going trough. So, if you have timeframe when you know for
> sure that there won't be any calls, you can restart by initscript.
> Otherwise, if you have low call volume in night-time, you may modify
> safe_asterisk script to start asterisk anyway (even if it returns ok
> exit stats that means shutdown), and then stop asterisk by "stop when
> convenient")
>
> Regards,
> Atis
>
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