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[shaheryarkh at googlem...]

Hi,

I am having random Linux Kernel crash problems while running FreeSWITCH as Skype to/from SIP gateway on one of our production servers. This machine is running CentOS 5.2, Kernel version 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plusPAE with FS svn revision number 13754.

At time of Kernel crash i could find following crash messages which point to some source code file in FS source tree.

 --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------


 3 Time(s):  =======================
 3 Time(s):  [<c0404eff>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
 3 Time(s):  [<c043ed22>] sys_delete_module+0x192/0x1b8
 3 Time(s):  [<c0449011>] audit_syscall_entry+0x14b/0x17d
 3 Time(s):  [<c049f4fe>] remove_proc_entry+0x139/0x18c
 3 Time(s):  [<f8d96281>] alsa_sound_exit+0xa/0x30 [snd]
 3 Time(s):  [<f8d96304>] snd_info_done+0x46/0x49 [snd]
 3 Time(s): BUG: warning at fs/proc/generic.c:732/remove_proc_entry() (Not tainted)
 1 Time(s): snd-malloc: Memory leak?  pages not freed = 1

 ---------------------- Kernel End -------------------------

While the problem seems to arise from ALSA kernel module but it blames FS file fs/proc/generic.c:732 for this. The only FS module that is using ALSA is mod_skypiax but as far as i remember that module is using FS internal routines to allocate and de-allocate sound driver services for Skype client.
Please suggest a solution.

Thank you.


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Muhammad Shahzad
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CISCO Rich Media Communication Specialist (CRMCS)
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[gmaruzz at celliax.org]

Performance problems and other issues (eg crashes on ALSA drivers) has
been reported for Skypiax on CentOS, albeit various users got good
success on same CentOS. The section down below, "Extreme" Performances
on Linux solves all problems for the user that got issues on CentOS.

http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Skypiax_Skype_Endpoint_and_Trunk#.22Extreme.22_Performances_on_Linux



On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Giovanni Maruzzelli<gmaruzz@celliax.org> wrote:

[gmaruzz at celliax.org]

Ciao Muhammad,

I've got many problems with ALSA drivers, including various kind of crashes.

To make a looong story short, use the alsa_drivers version 1.0.20,
they have not yet crashed on me.

Also, if you want to test it, you can compile the customized snd-dummy
driver you find in the svn code, it is a try to have much more
efficiency bot in softirqs and context switches, allows for 64 Skype
instances (128 subdevices), etc. it is to be compiled with
alsa_drivers 1.0.20 too.

Is my feeling (I mean, almost sure) they got spin_locking wrong in
previous versions, and it crashes the kernel when you "really" use it
(Skype clients have a demented usage of alsa).

BTW, I'm in the process of revamp the code, fix the bugs and apply
patches. Please, have a look at the new wiki page with lots of new
content, I'll send a mail to the ML tomorrow


Sincerely,

Giovanni Maruzzelli
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www.celliax.org
via Pierlombardo 9, 20135 Milano
Italy
gmaruzz at celliax dot org
Cell : +39-347-2665618
Fax : +39-02-87390039




On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Muhammad
Shahzad<shaheryarkh@googlemail.com> wrote:

[shaheryarkh at googlem...]

Thanks. Let me try it and let you know the results.

Thank you.


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz@celliax.org (gmaruzz@celliax.org)> wrote:

[gmaruzz at celliax.org]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Muhammad
Shahzad<shaheryarkh@googlemail.com> wrote: