[Freeswitch-users] freeswitch memory leakage.

[Brian West]

FreeSWITCH uses memory pools, so NO in a lot of cases it won't give it
back, it will hit a high water mark based on your use case.  And Drop
caches is dangerous.




On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Aqs Younas <aqsyounas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Brian.
>
> Its ok If vlc takes some ram, but freeswitch must release the ram when
> there are no calls.
> Is there any command that can make freeswitch release the ram without
> restarting the freeswitch.
>
> Like this linux command which makes linux release the cached ram.
>
> free && sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free1
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On 27 March 2015 at 18:51, Aqs Younas <aqsyounas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, we are using linux and looking at RSS value.
>>
>> Our dialplan is mostly using mod_vlc for running streams.Just a call
>> comes in and a radio stream is played with mod_vlc. I am not sure either
>> mod_vlc or something else in freeswitch is eating up ram.
>>
>> I just told our dialplan is mostly based on mod_vlc a portion on
>> mod_curl. I have attached the top command results in above post, you can
>> see freeswitch consuming more ram than any process.
>>
>> One more thing, 6th freeswitch doesn't capture ram more than 1 gb, that
>> one is not using mod_vlc or mod_curl. On other 5 freeswitch we are facing
>> the issue.
>>
>> 6th one freeswitch dialplan just consist of.
>>
>> <extension name="garbage">
>>       <condition>
>>         <action application="answer"/>
>>         <action application="playback"
>> data="/opt/garbage/Generic_VM.wav"/>
>>         <action application="hangup"/>
>>       </condition>
>> </extension>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> On 27 March 2015 at 18:32, I put the Who? in Mishehu <
>> mishehu at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  Are you using linux?  If so, which memory value are you looking at
>>> (VSZ, RSS...) ?
>>>
>>> If you don't use mod_vlc, do you still see FreeSWITCH consuming this
>>> much RAM?  Usually FreeSWITCH builds up a memory pool and won't release
>>> that back to the system until after shutdown, but I don't normally see that
>>> go above about 1.2GB of RAM in any of the systems I work on (though they do
>>> not use mod_vlc).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Yossi Neiman
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/27/2015 07:57 AM, Aqs Younas wrote:
>>>
>>>    Hi, users
>>>
>>>  We are using 6 freeswitch instances, 5 freeswitch instances for playing
>>> streams with mod_vlc. After 3 to 4 for days,  we see these (5) freeswitch
>>> taking more than 3gb of momory and even though calls are not more than 25.
>>>
>>>  Usually, some calls stay for more than 2 to 3 hours on some
>>> freeswitch.  Everytime we have to restart the freeswitch to release the
>>> captured memory.
>>>
>>>  But is believed, freeswitch must release the momory when there are no
>>> calls. But freeswitch still keeps captured memory.
>>>
>>> I have attactted the top command result along with this email.
>>>  Willing to perform any test if it helps tackle the problem.
>>>
>>>  Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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