So that´s why I´ve always get a red bar on home screen of the Trixbox? Phisical memory is always at top most use, near 100% (green bar turns red on high level of memory use), and below it there is Kernel / Application, Buffers, Cached memory uses.
tks, On Feb 13, 2008 12:51 PM, Atis Lezdins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/13/08, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:48:14PM +0800, Rilawich Ango wrote: > > > Actually, I donno it is a memory leak or not. I have a server only > > > running asterisk. As time goes by, the free memory shown in the top > > > is decreased. After I restart the asterisk, the free memory comes > > > again. That's why I wonder if regular restart asterisk is necessary. > > > Use a crontab to restart asterisk is a way to do it but you have to > > > maintain a crontab. Is it possible to use logrotate instead? Or > > > other better way? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -m > > total used free shared buffers > cached > > Mem: 485 477 7 0 0 > 100 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 376 108 > > Swap: 1419 270 1149 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ top -b | head -n 5 > > top - 10:18:32 up 19 days, 14:38, 24 users, load average: 0.08, 0.33, > 0.21 > > Tasks: 166 total, 1 running, 163 sleeping, 2 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 1.1%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.2%id, 0.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, > 0.0%st > > Mem: 496648k total, 489044k used, 7604k free, 32k buffers > > Swap: 1453840k total, 276740k used, 1177100k free, 103380k cached > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep asterisk > > asterisk 9559 0.0 2.5 474896 12892 ? Ssl Feb12 0:00 > /usr/sbin/asterisk -p -U asterisk > > > > Gee, I only have 7 MB free! I must reboot to free some memory! And that > > Asterisk is using so much memory! > > Guys, don't start panic here. This is perfectly normal memory status > for Linux. Linux automatically uses most free memory for disk cache, > leaving only few megabytes, and frees disk cache as soon as any > application requests. This has nothing to do with Asterisk. > > Regards, > Atis > > > > > In fact: > > 1. The system has some 100MB of free memory. almost all of it is used > > for caching and such. > > > > 2. Asterisk overcommits memory: it generally asks the kernel huge > > ammounts of memory, but doesn't really try to use them. At least with > > Linux such overcommits are not claimed at all. > > > > -- > > Tzafrir Cohen > > icq#16849755 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir > > > > _______________________________________________ > > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > > > asterisk-users mailing list > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > -- > Atis Lezdins > VoIP Developer, > IQ Labs Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype: atis.lezdins > Cell Phone: +371 28806004 > Work phone: +1 800 7502835 > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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