Asterisking crashing routinely... best debug options?

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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Hi,

I have been running an Asterisk system for a few months with a very low call volume (around 50 calls a day). All was good so I started to route more calls through the system (around 1000 a day) and now Asterisk is routinely crashing once or twice a day. I have set asterisk to respawn in inittab but I would like to debug the problem by examining a core dump or something. I know I can core dump with the -g option I think? Can this be dumped to a file? What other debug options are there?

Thanks

Wimnat

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In menuselect you can also check “Don’t Optimize” in the compiler flags. It will give more information in the core file that is useful in tracking down issues. I typically use safe_asterisk to start asterisk as it also can be set up to email you when something goes wrong. (It also restarts asterisk)

Have you updated to the latest stable version?