[App_rpt-users] hub crash help

[ars.w5omr at gmail.com]

Moreso, Tim, what I find most upsetting is that all Allstar users can't get on the same page.  

I'm not interested in resparking the ages old debate - that horse is long dead and even the maggots have moved on.
I -do- wish however, there was simply more respect for one another in this world.

Good job on identifying problem areas in the code. Perhaps an in-depth review of those specific modules by someone who knows the language (that ain't me!) is in order. 

73
Geoff/W5OMR
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On Nov 15, 2017 5:54 PM, Tim Sawyer <tisawyer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have long complained about the uptime of App_Rpt. I've identified two repeatable problems. 
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> First one is if a node is connected more than about 650 hours or so there is a buffer overflow. I notice this most prominently with my RTCMs that are all on the same server connected to a hub on the same server. Allmon will show an negative number of connected hours followed shortly by a crash. Apparently this not just an RTCM problem, it just shows up there more readily because the nodes on the same server and aren't disconnecting due to network issues.
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> The second problem can be recreated in two ways. Set up a bunch of nodes to repeatedly connect and disconnect to a hub with some simple bash scripting. After a random time there will be a crash. The second way is to crank in simulated packet loss with the IAX2 test command. It takes more time and patients for it to crash under this test. I believe both these tests demonstrate the same problem. There is something flaky in the area of IAX links within App_Rpt or Asterisk
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> The Ham VoIP guys say they have really improved the uptime of their distro. I think that's great but I find it terribly upsetting that the DIAL folks don't get these fixes. 
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