Recordings hogging memory

[spinto]

Since recording all calls, the server has been using most of the available memory.

We haven't noticed any crashes and nobody has complained. Out of 4 GB of memory, only a few hundres MB is available. It goes back to normal several hours after the agents leave for the day, then goes back down as soon as the begin calling again.

The recordings are using tmpfs and have 2 GB allocated to it.

The following cron jobs are running thats related to recordings:
/usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_1_move_mix.pl
/usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_2_compress.pl --GSM

We also have the following job that runs ever 10 minutes which moves the recordings to a samba drive:
/bin/mv /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/GSM/* /mnt/gsmdump/ 2>/dev/null 1>&2

Asterisk Version 1.2.30.2
Vicidial Version 2.0.5

Would setting this up on a RAM drive fix this problem?

[williamconley]

There have been many discussion on this, and how to do it, if you search for them.

If you are recording all the calls, you should probably try it and see what your results are, they will likely be good.

But adding memory would help a bit as well, especially if you want to use some of it for recordings. You could also consider not running the mixer & GSM until after the shift is over