On Aug 15, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Ray Fadaie wrote: > Hmmm, it is strange. I do use sound files but doesn't Asterisk > release the memory after it played those sounds?
By my observations, sound file are loaded, and played, but stick around if they are needed again, but can be purged if memory is needed. > As for the memory diagnostic tools, I am pretty much limited to what > Astlinux offers. Any ideas what tools could be used here? Sorry, someone else may offer a memory test suggestion. I'm just suggesting you might have a hardware memory issue. Lonnie > > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Ray Fadaie wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've been using Astlinux for more than a year now. I had been using > > 0.4.8 until just recently that I switched to 0.5. I am running it on > > a small box with only 128M of RAM (Ebox 2300). The problem with > > 0.4.8 was that it kept hanging after almost of 2 weeks of running > > (every time). I would guess there was some memory leake somewhere in > > that version. > > I switched to 0.5 and it's been running for 3 weeks now without > > intruption. I am monitoring the available memory almost every day > > and I can see that it decreases. It started somewhere in 36M area > > and I am down to 28-9M these days. [It obviously should not act like > > MS-Windows ;) ] > > I am worried I may end up to the same situation. > > Do you guys have any idea what could be the problem? > > Ray, > I have a couple Soekris net4801's (128K Memory) and have used 0.4.x > and, over the last several months, an asterisk 1.4 trunk version. In > both cases, they have run for months without issue. > > For a data point, I just checked one 128MB AstLinux box's "top" show > the following: > > >>Mem: 68608K used, 58476K free, 0K shrd, 4020K buff, 52908K cached > >>CPU: 1.1% usr 0.9% sys 0.0% nice 97.6% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq > 0.1% softirq > >>Load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 > > Note that asterisk loads modules and other resources as needed, > specifically sound files will reduce the available memory, and unless > they need to be purged to make room, they hang around. > > If you have any memory diagnostic tools to run on your box, that might > be a start. > > Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
