Thanks a lot. This could actually be the case. How would I decrease the size
of /tmp /var in this new runnix environment?
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Darrick Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Lonnie Abelbeck 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.
>
> Lonnie, you're running Asterisk on a 128K system? Nice ;)
>
> > 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.
>
> If you clearly look at that, much of that used memory is cached. Linux
> does a great job of managing memory and allocating as much as possible.
> Also remember that /tmp and /var are located in ramfs. As your log
> files grow, more memory will be used. The default values for /tmp and
> /var should not cause problems for most systems.
>
> Darrick
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