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

[Alec Davis]

Beat me to it.

There are other commits that follow up from 18654 that may also help.
Check the blame's for changes to apps/app_directed_pickup.c and
main/features.c

Alec 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Ishfaq Malik
> Sent: Friday, 15 July 2011 8:16 p.m.
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] *8 causing large number of 
> channels to go stale (possible bug)
> 
> 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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> Ishfaq Malik
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> PackNet Ltd
> 
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> 
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