[asterisk-users] *8 causing large number of channels to go stale (possible bug)

[Ishfaq Malik]

Please ignore, I should have looked at issues.asterisk.org first

https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18654

Apologies

Ish

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 09:03 +0100, Ishfaq Malik wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We're using asterisk 1.8.3.2 with the patch from issue 18818
> 
> Were finding a high incidence of channels staying open after the call
> has finished when the call has been picked up using *8
> 
> I know there has been an issue with parking calls in 1.8, could this be
> related?
> 
> our features.conf has everything commented apart from the following
> lines
> 
> parkext => 700                  ; What extension to dial to park
> parkpos => 701-720              ; What extensions to park calls on.
> (defafult parking lot)
>                                 ; These needs to be numeric, as Asterisk
> starts from the start position
>                                 ; and increments with one for the next
> parked call.
> context => parkedcalls          ; Which context parked calls are in
> (default parking lot)
> 
> The caveat to the above is that it doesn't always happen when a call has
> been picked up using *8 but all of the stale channels I have seen so far
> have been picked up using *8
> 
> It would be interesting to see if anyone can replicate this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ish

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