[asterisk-users] Asterisk spontaneous reboot

[Sherwood McGowan]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jonas Kellens <jonas.kellens at telenet.be> wrote:
> On 11/06/2010 07:18 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>> On Saturday 06 November 2010 11:22:06 Jonas Kellens wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I just experienced a spontaneous reboot of Asterisk. This is my log file
>>> /var/log/messages :
>>>
>>> Nov  6 16:37:37 vps2301 kernel: miniserv.pl invoked oom-killer:
>>>
>> First line.  Your miniserv.pl allocated more memory than is allocated to
>> the system, so the dreaded OOM killer came into play and killed a selected
>> process.  Have you considered enabling swap memory?
>>
>
> I have 512 MB real RAM and 1024 of swap.
>
> bash-3.2# cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:       524288 kB
> MemFree:         23760 kB
> Buffers:         28564 kB
> Cached:         348668 kB
> SwapCached:       6536 kB
> Active:         193972 kB
> Inactive:       231216 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:       524288 kB
> LowFree:         23760 kB
> SwapTotal:     1048568 kB
> SwapFree:       949456 kB
> Dirty:             768 kB
> Writeback:           0 kB
> AnonPages:       46652 kB
> Mapped:          16884 kB
> Slab:            21000 kB
> PageTables:       8084 kB
> NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
> Bounce:              0 kB
> CommitLimit:   1310712 kB
> Committed_AS:   321288 kB
> VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
> VmallocUsed:       784 kB
> VmallocChunk: 34359737535 kB
>
>
> miniserv.pl... I have webmin running yes and it was stopped after the
> restart of Asterisk...
>
> So the bad one in this story is WebMin that was eating up all the memory ?
>
>
> Jonas.
>
>
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Yessir, that's the culprit in this case