On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Julian Yap wrote:

Private memory is default. Should I increase this? Is there a recommended rule of thumb?

Shared memory is set for 128Mb. There were memory errors at 32Mb but none since this was increased to 128Mb.

Using the setting 'children = 8'.

(moved to user list)

Hi Julien,

you only need to increase this if you use some modules that needs to load a big dataset on startup (e.g. carrierroute), and if you get allocation errors for the private memory.

If you run with 128 MB shared memory, then the server should not use more then this memory, i.e. the depletion of memory you observed is not caused from OpenSER.

The ammount of memory that is used from the server is:

((actual number of children) x private memory) + shared memory

Perhaps you can adapt your "monitoring" to log the actual biggest memory consumer on the system?

Cheers,

Henning