[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.62.13 - CPU spikes every 10 minutes

[Mike]

Thanks Dave.  I'll do a complete system restart when I can, and see if it
helps. (an Asterisk restart didn't).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Dave Platt
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 13:35
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.62.13 - CPU spikes every 10
> minutes
> 
> For what it's worth... I also observed an unusually high
> level of CPU activity on my small (home-system) Asterisk
> installation, shortly after I switched to 1.6.2.13.
> 
> The pattern in my case was (as best as I could tell) a
> CPU load of 2% to 10%, pulsing upwards every few seconds.
> I couldn't resolve it any more finely than that, at the
> time I saw it.
> 
> This is a very small Asterisk install (just two or three
> SIP extensions registered at the time, no calls in progress,
> no significant activity noted on the net interfaces at
> the time), running on an Atom N270 CPU system.  I am using
> the "internal_timing = yes" option (pthreads timing rather
> than dahdi).
> 
> I did a "core restart when convenient", Asterisk restarted,
> and the CPU load dropped to negligible levels.  It has
> remained low ever since (about 7 minutes of CPU used, over
> the space of a couple of days).
> 
> I have a hunch that in 1.6.2.13, some resource isn't being
> cleaned up properly after calls terminate or extensions
> de-register, and that the system is spending a significant
> amount of time "chasing its tail" navigating through these
> obsolete resources.  Just a hunch, though... nothing to back
> this up.
> 
> 
> 
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