[asterisk-users] Help choosing the right card

[Vladimir Mikhelson]

Benny,

Thank you for clarification.  I did not know executable pages would not
swap.

Shaun wrote a patch with mlockall() and it crashed my system badly.

Is there a way to lock just a specific module in memory vs. the whole
Asterisk application?

-Vladimir



On 6/17/2012 9:39 AM, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Vladimir Mikhelson <vlad at mikhelson.com> writes:
>
>> But interestingly enough, yesterday morning I had zero (0) bytes in the
>> swap file and still experienced missing DTMF detection on an outgoing
>> call.
> Executables do not get written to swap, their pages just get discarded
> under pressure, and reloaded directly from their original location on
> disk.
>
> The only way to ensure that Asterisk always stays in memory is to use
> the mlockall() system call; doing that would require patching Asterisk.
>
>
> /Benny
>
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