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    About the "drop_caches" thing, you should *not* do that unless you
    really understand what you are doing!<br>
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    It's a common misconception that it might increase performance or
    "free" memory. In reality you would probably see a performance drop
    and free memory that is already available for reuse... It's only
    useful if you are doing kernel benchmarking or debugging.<br>
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    François.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/27/2015 03:06 PM, Aqs Younas
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            <div>Hi, Brian. <br>
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            Its ok If vlc takes some ram, but freeswitch must release
            the ram when there are no calls.<br>
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          Is there any command that can make freeswitch release the ram
          without restarting the freeswitch. <br>
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        Like this linux command which makes linux release the cached
        ram.<br>
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                <div>free &amp;&amp; sync &amp;&amp; echo 3 &gt;
                  /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches &amp;&amp; free1<br>
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                <div>Thanks<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On 27 March 2015 at 18:51, Aqs Younas <span
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              href="mailto:aqsyounas@gmail.com" target="_blank">aqsyounas@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>
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                    <div>Yes, we are using linux and looking at RSS
                      value. <br>
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                    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.<br>
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                  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. <br>
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                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.<br>
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              6th one freeswitch dialplan just consist of. <br>
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              &lt;extension name="garbage"&gt;<br>
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                      <div>      &lt;condition&gt;<br>
                                &lt;action application="answer"/&gt;<br>
                                &lt;action application="playback"
                        data="/opt/garbage/Generic_VM.wav"/&gt;<br>
                                &lt;action application="hangup"/&gt;<br>
                              &lt;/condition&gt;<br>
                        &lt;/extension&gt;<br>
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                      <div>Thanks for your reply. <br>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote">On 27 March 2015 at 18:32, I
                    put the Who? in Mishehu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
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                        <div>Are you using linux?  If so, which memory
                          value are you looking at (VSZ, RSS...) ?<br>
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                          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).<span><font
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                            <div> On 03/27/2015 07:57 AM, Aqs Younas
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                                        <div>Hi, users<br>
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                                        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. <br>
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                                      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.<br>
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                                    But is believed, freeswitch must
                                    release the momory when there are no
                                    calls. But freeswitch still keeps
                                    captured memory.<br>
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                                    I have attactted the top command
                                    result along with this email. <br>
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                                  Willing to perform any test if it
                                  helps tackle the problem. <br>
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                                Thanks for your help.<br>
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