I can verify this is happening as well.. It seems to happen very 
suddenly, and the web interface will be very slow for about 5 minutes, 
then I'll get the white screen of death. The only way to revive it is to 
run the following from the command prompt:

sipxproc -r ConfigServer

Josh Patten
Assistant Network Administrator
Brazos County IT Dept.
(979) 361-4676


On 5/15/2010 3:50 PM, Stephen D. Miller wrote:
>
> My setup is running on a dual processor 1.5 Ghz PIII w/ 1GB of RAM.  It is a 
> new 4.2 installation (not an upgrade), on a fresh machine (installed from 
> ISO) on the raw hardware (no Vmware).
>
> As it's a residential setup, there is no call volume to speak of.  Fourteen 
> phones sitting registered, maybe one call inbound/outbound per day. Never 
> more than 1 concurrent call.  This behavior occurred within 2 days of 
> deployment.
>
> I ran v3.10 sipx for 2 years on less beefy hardware and never saw this 
> behavior.
>
> If v4.2 can't survive at idle on this class of hardware, something seems very 
> awry...
>
> sdm
>
>    
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Todd Hodgen
>> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 2:51 PM
>> To: 'Tony Graziano'; [email protected]
>> Cc: 'D. R. Lang'; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Java goes to 89 percent an web
>> console gets slow
>>
>> Before a question to the dev list, it might be reasonable for
>> those that are
>> seeing this issue to tell what their configuration consist
>> of.   I've seen
>> one here that is on a VM solution.  And Tony is indicating he
>> is running PAE Kernel.
>>
>> I recall a message from Scott Lawrence that indicated he
>> didn't think the PAE Kernal would be an issue, but they had
>> not explicitly tested that scenario.
>>
>> I've seen this behavior once on a customer system, and it
>> went away about
>> two hours later and I've not seen it since - over 90 days
>> ago.   Dual Core
>> with 4gb.
>>
>> Would it not make sense to try and find any common hardware
>> scenarios that might be contributing to this issue?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Tony Graziano
>> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:35 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]; D. R. Lang
>> Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Java goes to 89 percent an web
>> console gets slow
>>
>> I think it's worth a question the the dev list to understand
>> why this happens. I had one that was so problematic, I
>> started seeing corruption in the DB and had to manually
>> rebuild the data before it became useable.
>>
>> one can restart the config service from CLI
>>
>> sipxproc --restart ConfigServer
>>
>> (but I would caution, when I had this happen and did that, I
>> saw a further diminished capability (could delete users,
>> could not add users, input aliases, etc.)
>>
>> Are these upgrades from 4.0.4 or new 4.2 installs? I would
>> also say I feel like a decent core duo would be the minimum
>> CPU to keep this from being painfully slow, and if you are
>> using a 32bit OS, and running more than 4GB of RAM, ensure
>> you are using the PAE kernel (yum install kernel-PAE, then
>> change grub to boot to that kernel instead).
>>
>> In my hand rebuild, I also made sure a branch was established
>> and all devices and users were assigned to a branch. I
>> remember in 4.16 and
>> 4.1.7 having issues with the configUI properly showing me
>> details and advanced settings, and getting slow, unless I had done so.
>>
>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marcello Manzardo
>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>      
>>> I have seem the same issue numerous times. Most of the time
>>>        
>> I can cure
>>      
>>> it
>>>        
>> by
>>      
>>> restarting the management service and of course a complete system
>>> restart fixes it.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>>>        
>> Of Stephen D.
>>      
>>> Miller
>>> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:09 AM
>>> To: D. R. Lang; [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Java goes to 89 percent an web
>>>        
>> console gets
>>      
>>> slow
>>>
>>>
>>> For what it's worth, I have seen this multiple times on my new 4.2
>>> installation as well.
>>>
>>> If you wait long enough (~5 or more minutes), things
>>>        
>> eventually sort
>>      
>>> themselves out.  In the meantime, however, as you
>>>        
>> indicated, the web
>>      
>>> UI takes about a minute (at least) to navigate from page to page.  
>>> There are no calls active on the system when this occurs.
>>>
>>> Anyone else see this behavior?
>>>
>>>        
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D. R.
>>>> Lang
>>>> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 6:14 PM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: [sipx-users] Java goes to 89 percent an web console gets
>>>> slow
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In sipx 4.2 occasionally the web console gets sluggish  or
>>>> unresponsive.  TOP shows the Java utilization constantly at
>>>> 89 to 92 percent.   The system is working from the phone site but
>>>> can't manage it from superadmin or a user extension.  If you wait
>>>> long enough the utilization on java goes down and you can
>>>>          
>> get to the
>>      
>>>> web menus but you wait 30 seconds for a screen change.
>>>>          
>> The only good
>>      
>>>> recovery is a reboot.  Before I gave up and rebooted I
>>>>          
>> received the
>>      
>>>> Message.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   Java heap space
>>>>
>>>> RequestURI=/sipxconfig/admin/commserver/LocationsPage,editLoca
>>>> tionLink.sdirect
>>>>
>>>> Powered by Jetty://
>>>>
>>>> I am running with 2GB of memory and dual processors.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Duane Lang
>>>>
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>> sip: [email protected]
>> Fax: 434.984.8431
>>
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