<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000066">Looking at his tcpdump command it keeps 500 files of 10 MB each? (not sure)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 January 2014 15:29, Kevin Larsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.larsen@pioneerballoon.com" target="_blank">kevin.larsen@pioneerballoon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<tt><font><a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a> wrote on 01/16/2014
08:55:31 AM:<br>
<br>
> From: Gareth Blades <<a href="mailto:mailinglist%2Basterisk@dns99.co.uk" target="_blank">mailinglist+asterisk@dns99.co.uk</a>></font></tt>
<br><tt><font>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
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> <<a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>>, </font></tt>
<br><tt><font>> Date: 01/16/2014 08:55 AM</font></tt>
<br><tt><font>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Weird issue with
Set(CALLERID(name)=string);</font></tt>
<br><tt><font>> Sent by: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a></font></tt>
<br><div class="im"><tt><font>> <br>
> Very little as the amount of data being captured is quite small. We
<br>
> have it running on our production servers which routinely handle a
<br>
> couple of hundred concurrent calls.<br>
> <br>
> This is the script we use to start off the capture. It uses rolling
<br>
> capture files so we will always have the last X number of capture
<br>
> logs. It works very well and we have a custom system which enables
<br>
> us to search for calls and request traces for them for when we have
<br>
> to diagnose problems.<br>
> <br>
> #!/bin/bash<br>
> cd /var/lib/asterisk/siptraces<br>
> DATE=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`<br>
> TRACEFILE=/var/lib/asterisk/siptraces/$DATE-siptrace.pcap<br>
> nohup /usr/sbin/tcpdump -p -i eth0 -s 0 port 5060 -w $TRACEFILE -C
10 -W 500 &<br>
> <br>
> <br>
</font></tt>
<br></div><tt><font>Not to derail the conversation, Gareth, but do you
leave this running full time on your asterisk boxes or just turn it on
when you are trying to track problems?</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font>On average, how far back can you go for looking at
problems?</font></tt><br>--<br>
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