[asterisk-users] Base memory usage

[Danny Nicholas]

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Larry Wimble
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 8:11 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Base memory usage

Jeremy Kister wrote:
> On 12/30/2010 9:59 PM, Larry Wimble wrote:
>> I just installed asterisk 1.8.1.1 along with FreePBX on a fairly small
>> VPS (512mb standard, 512mb "burst").  I note that the asterisk process
>> is using about 209mb of memory just doing nothing (not configured to do
>> anything yet)
>
> I'm running 1.8.1 rc1 + some patches (nothing to do with memory) and 
> i'm at 42MB resident (73 virt/8shared)
>
> I've got just about everything turned on via menuselect, but then i 
> have a bunch of modules turned off via modules.conf
>
> I doubt that's your issue, but if you're interested to see my 
> modules.conf, it's temporarily at 
> http://jeremy.kister.net/tmp/modules.conf
>
Thanks a bunch guys!

I pruned the modules loading and that did the job, although I found 
something interesting in doing so:

Removing modules one by one seemed to have virtually no effect until I 
got to chan_iax2.so.  Removing this module dropped memory consumption 
from 209mb to 16mb (looking at the RES column in the output of `top'). 

Once again, thanks for your suggestions ... Works like a charm!

Kind Regards,
Larry

Here is a future timesaver - use this command to see what is eating the
asterisk memory before you start removing stuff:
Pmap -d `pgrep asterisk`

This will run a pmap on the active asterisk process 




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