High vicidial cpu usage

[darryldale]

Have a new vicidial box setup to do some broadcast dialing.

Noticed something unusual in cpu usage and was wondering if anybody had any ideas.

If I log into my Trixbox machine and run the top command I can see that the asterisk process consumes very minimal cpu usage (with very occasional spikes).

If I log into my Vicidial machine and run the top command however I can see that the cpu usage is pegged at > 95%. Note that the box is only doing broadcast dialing between 6&10PM and is not doing anything right now.

I went ahead and rebooted the box and cpu usage is now as expected (almost nothing). Is there any known issues with the current vicidial release that cause a runaway asterisk process?

I am going to do some tests today and try and narrow down exactly what is causing it but thought somebody might have come across the issue already.

I'm also a little confused by the server performance report as well since I don't know what a "realistic" server load should be. If I run the server performance report for 2 hours yesterday afternoon when the box wasn't doing anything I get the following:

VICIDIAL: Server Performance 2008-06-03 10:36:26
Time range: 2008-06-02 14:00:00 to 2008-06-02 15:00:00

---------- TOTALS, PEAKS and AVERAGES
Total Calls in/out on this server: 0
Total Off-Hook time on this server (min):
Average/Peak channels in use for server: 2.9555 / 3
Average/Peak load for server: 246.7039 / 308
Average USER process cpu percentage: 46.7065 %
Average SYSTEM process cpu percentage: 53.2935 %
Average IDLE process cpu percentage: 0.0000 %

What is normal for load?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Darryl

[mflorell]

Linux distro?

Asterisk version?

astguiclient version?

kind of trunks used?

[darryldale]

Latest version of VicidialNow.

CentOS 5.1

Asterisk version 1.2.27

Astguiclient version 2.0.4

Using one AIX trunk.

Darryl

Linux distro?

Asterisk version?

astguiclient version?

kind of trunks used?

[mflorell]

Did you install CentOS as Desktop or Server?

[darryldale]

Wish I knew the answer to that question.

I put the ViciDialNow disk in computer and let it do its thing. It was a fully automated install.

Darryl

FYI: The high cpu usage might have been a fluke. We have run another couple of tests importing lists and calling people and the issue has not occured again.

At this point I'll consider it a side affect of all the testing / monkeying around we were doing and am going to put it on the back burner for now.

Thanks anyway.

Did you install CentOS as Desktop or Server?