Re: [asterisk-users] How often to restart Asterisk...

2013-01-12 Thread Stelios Koroneos
>Veering off topic, but still curious :) > >Since an AGI only exists for part of the life of a single call, how >does >it accumulate enough resources to be a problem? Call goes away...AGI thread stays back in some zombi state waiting for something (most of the times response from another web serv

Re: [asterisk-users] How often to restart Asterisk...

2013-01-12 Thread Logan Bibby
I've actually had an AGI script that Asterisk never closed the fork for. It was testing a particular feature so it was pretty badly written. Ended up consuming a lot of resources. No idea why Asterisk hated that script, though. Failed to kill it every time. But would continue on the dial plan afte

Re: [asterisk-users] How often to restart Asterisk...

2013-01-12 Thread Steve Edwards
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Stelios Koroneos wrote: The biggest issue i have faced in term of stability is badly written AGI scripts that tend to hog resources and bring systems down in the end. Veering off topic, but still curious :) Since an AGI only exists for part of the life of a single call, h

Re: [asterisk-users] How often to restart Asterisk...

2013-01-12 Thread Stelios Koroneos
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 15:09 -0600, Danny Nicholas wrote: > The general rule seems to be, don’t restart it unless there’s a > problem or you hear of memory leaks. I had a version of 1.4 that I > restarted every night because I read about memory leaks, but I hear of > 1.2 installs that have been run

Re: [asterisk-users] How often to restart Asterisk...

2013-01-11 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Kevin Larsen < kevin.lar...@pioneerballoon.com> wrote: > However, this does make me wonder, do you restart periodically to try to > avoid issues or do you just let things run until there is a problem? This > box had 119 days of up time on the Asterisk process. I ha

Re: [asterisk-users] How often to restart Asterisk...

2013-01-11 Thread Danny Nicholas
users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Larsen Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 3:07 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] How often to restart Asterisk... Had my Asterisk instance stop responding to incoming/outg

[asterisk-users] How often to restart Asterisk...

2013-01-11 Thread Kevin Larsen
Had my Asterisk instance stop responding to incoming/outgoing calls today. Had to kill -9 the asterisk process and restart it to get it back. Not really looking for help on that as the instance is version 1.6 and is due to be replaced with an upgraded version shortly. However, this does make me