[asterisk-users] restart asterisk daily

[randulo]

On Feb 13, 2008 8:48 AM, Rilawich Ango <maillisting at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I observed the same behavior. Someone told me that that's a normal
feature of linux, it manages memory that way. If that's true, than it
isn't normal to see the same (large) amount of free memory over time
on a box running asterisk only. However, I rarely restart and it
hasn't caused problems. Here's mine right now:

09:14:39  up 73 days, 18:47,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
67 processes: 65 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.1% user   3.9% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  95.8% idle
Mem:   515460k av,  509416k used,    6044k free,       0k shrd,   80052k buff
       152896k active,             191472k inactive
Swap:  477248k av,       0k used,  477248k free                  242404k cached

'course, these days, half a meg isn't much :)