Hello,

difficult to say, it could be also some random memory error or virtual/physical 
hardware issue. Are you seeing more error related to that, maybe it’s a memory 
leak? Make probably sense to observe it further. If it happens again, a diff 
between the rtpengine in 5.6.1 and 5.6.2 might get more insight.
Regarding a memory leak, you can observe the memory pool by kamcmd or different 
tools by looking at statistics or memory status.

Cheers,

Henning

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From: sr-users <sr-users-boun...@lists.kamailio.org> On Behalf Of George 
Diamantopoulos
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 12:14 PM
To: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <sr-users@lists.kamailio.org>
Subject: [SR-Users] Logs suddenly inundated with qm_malloc errors

Hello all,

I'm testing out release 5.6.2 on one production kamailio instance, and today 
our monitoring system triggered an alarm for lack of disk space on /. Indeed, 
kamailio.log started growing at an alarming rate at some point.

At about the same time disk space started being depleted, the following line 
was frequently logged in the logs (no instances of it before that time):

qm_malloc(): qm_malloc(0x7f5ade9c0010, 536) called from rtpengine: bencode.c: 
__bencode_piece_new(79), module: rtpengine; Free fragment not found!

They don't only concern rtpengine, core has produced similar "free fragment not 
found" errors as well. There's additional multiple "had header field", "bad 
header" and "invalid header name" errors appearing after that too, but I'm 
guessing that's only a symptom of the qm_malloc issue?

kamailio is started with -m 2048 -M 16 and there's another instance with almost 
identical traffic and configuration, but running on 5.6.1, which has never 
exhibited such failures in several months uptime. So I'm wondering, is there 
anything in 5.6.2 that could explain this? Thanks!

Best regards,
George
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