[OpenSIPS-Users] OpenSIPS running out of memory after a few hours

Vlad Paiu vladpaiu at opensips.org
Thu Apr 5 10:58:37 CEST 2012


Hi,

It might be a memory leak somewhere.

Can you please follow the following tutorial in order to get a memory dump,
so we can further investigate this ?
http://www.opensips.org/Resources/DocsTsMem

Regards,

Vlad Paiu
OpenSIPS Developer
http://www.opensips-solutions.com


On 04/05/2012 01:00 AM, Jock McKechnie wrote:
> In addition to my MediaProxy loading learnings I'm also discovering
> that there appears to be some fiddling to get OpenSIPS to handle this
> kind of loading as well. I have a fairly simple configuration which
> engages media proxy and forwards packets onto a single destination
> proxy (who then sends the calls onto the carrier).
>
> When I load up OpenSIPs with around 1400 inuse_transactions it'll
> click along for an hour or two and then it'll bomb out with:
> WARNING:core:fm_malloc: Not enough free memory, will atempt defragmenation
> ERROR:core:do_action: memory allocation failure
> <OpenSIPS threads shutting down here>
> ERROR:nat_traversal:save_keepalive_state: failed to open keepalive
> state file for writing: Permission denied
> CRITICAL:core:sig_alarm_abort: BUG - shutdown timeout triggered, dying...
>
> I'm using the Debianised 1.6.4-notls under a VM with 512MB of RAM. I
> have OpenSIPs set to allow 128MB in /etc/default/opensips. We have
> almost two hundred OpenSIPS proxies all running on 64M and I've
> _never_ managed to make one croak, but I imagine this one is much more
> heavily loaded due to the volume of calls along with the use of the
> dialog module for mediaproxy.
>
>  From when the proxy is first fired up, it's handling a fairly
> consistent 1000-1400 transactions, but it takes at least an hour for
> it to go over, which suggests to me that memory isn't being released
> properly. I'd be happy to throw more memory at the issue... but if
> it's not releasing then I'm left to wonder if there's a flaw that is
> always going to cause this problem.
>
> Am I barking up the wrong tree here, or is this known and there's a
> reasonable solution, or?
>
> My config, for reference, is here: http://pastebin.com/ZiWbK3GJ
>
> As always, thank you very much;
>
>   - Jock
>
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