[SR-Users] How to cleanup unconfirmed dialog in memory?

Carlos Ruiz Díaz carlos.ruizdiaz at gmail.com
Tue Jul 2 15:51:30 CEST 2013


There is, but for all dialogs, not only the unconfirmed ones.

http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/3.3.x/modules_k/dialog.html#default-timeout-id


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Charles Chance <
charles.chance at sipcentric.com> wrote:

> Hmm, I don't think there is even a timeout value set on unconfirmed
> dialogs in memory.
>
> Example (Kamailio 3.3.3):
>
> dialog::  hash=1791:10106
> state:: 1
>  ref_count:: 1
> timestart:: 0
> timeout:: 0
> ...
>
> Whereas:
>
> dialog::  hash=2963:2808
> state:: 4
> ref_count:: 2
>  timestart:: 1372772302
> timeout:: 114829207
> ...
>
> Therefore, the unconfirmed dialogs never get cleared automatically, in my
> experience at least. I hope I'm wrong though :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> On 2 July 2013 14:31, Henning Westerholt <hw at kamailio.org> wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, 2. Juli 2013, 14:23:25 schrieb Charles Chance:
>> > I don't think this will help at all, as regardless of DB mode,
>> unconfirmed
>> > dialogs are not stored in DB anyway.
>> >
>> > The important thing to remember is that if you are calling
>> dialog_manage()
>> > in your config, to only do it once you are ready to forward the
>> request. If
>> > you call it but then exit for some reason without actually forwarding,
>> you
>> > will probably end up with a stuck dialog.
>> >
>> > Maybe someone else can suggest other possible causes?
>> >
>> > To my knowledge, there is no existing way to clear these without
>> restarting.
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> AFAIK these stale dialogs are cleaned up after the dialog timeout. There
>> are
>> module parameter and also dialog specific parameter to control this
>> variable.
>> This stale dialogs needs a bit of memory, but are otherwise harmless.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Henning
>>
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