[asterisk-users] Asterisk routine maintenance activities

[Darrick Hartman]

Rob Hillis wrote:
> Darrick Hartman wrote:
>> Rob Hillis wrote:
>>   
>>> Daily?  No.  However, after implementing a weekly restart of Asterisk,
>>> I've found the instance of lockups and CPU utilisation spikes have
>>> decreased significantly.
>>>     
>> Unless you're using some unstable modules, there really should be no 
>> need to restart Asterisk.  Is there a certain activity that is causing 
>> these lockups?  I have low power systems which haven't had Asterisk 
>> restarted in months many times.  Granted, these are mostly low call 
>> volume systems, but unless there is a memory leak, you should not needed 
>> to restart the Asterisk process.  (my guess is one of the modules you 
>> are using has some sort of problem).
> 
> This particular system isn't low power - it's a full blown server. 
> Since I don't work at this place, I don't know what people are doing at
> the time the system freezes up.
> 
> It's been some time since I updated Asterisk at this site, so they're
> probably running version 1.4.17 - 1.4.20 there. (it's a voluntary
> organisation where I've since become sick of (a) the politics and (b)
> their expectation that I drop what I'm doing to help them, regardless of
> whether I'm at work or not)

Ah.  That's probably the issue.  There were some significant bugs in 
some of the releases in that range.

> If I were to do things again, I'd be running Astlinux on a net 5501 with
> an integrated hard drive (for voicemail/IVR and so on)  Only time I've
> ever had to reboot my Astlinux box at home (on an ALIX-3) is when it's
> time to upgrade Astlinux.

That's what we like to hear!  Did you update to the latest version (0.6.5)?