asterisk users - Jan 2005 - Ramifications of Multiple Sip Reloads Within Minutes?

We have the ability to create random UID's on own system through a custom 
CGI API. These UID's are written to individual sip configuration files based
on the account name, so for instance sip_TEST.conf, sip_TEST2.conf, and 
sip_TEST3.conf, etc. Many of these UID's are created on the fly and at
random
times throughout the day. Right now, I have it setup to do a reload every 
night. Would it be damaging to do a "asterisk -rx sip reload" upon the
creation of the UID (peer name)? I am asking because I would like for the 
peer names to be displayed immediately by using the sip show peers command. I 
am not interested in realtime because I am running stable 1.0.3 only and also 
it does not provide the qualify functionality I so desire.


-- 
Brian Wilkins
Software Engineer
brian@hcc.net

Heritage Communications Corporation
  Melbourne, FL     USA     32935
321.308.4000 x33
http://www.hcc.net

Supposedly from what I can tell you're supposed to be able to reload as
often as you need, but from personal experiences I have seen issues with too
many reloads. Memory being wasted, or maybe a higher than average CPU usage,
something, for lack of a better term, "screwy". Something that almost
always
gets fixed by a complete stop and restart.

What I do is, when an extension or account is created through our web
interface and it puts it into the sip.conf/extensions.conf/voicemail.conf
files, it creates a little file in the tmp directory, something like
"RELOAD_ASTERISK" and it's blank. Every 5 minutes, a cronjob runs,
it looks
for that file, if it exists it will reload Asterisk and delete that file.

So if no changes were made in the past 5 minutes, Asterisk won't get
un-necessarily reloaded. This tends to be a good solution. Once a month or
so I stop Asterisk about 4am and start it again, just in case. 

Who knows, it could all be in my head. What I do know. Shrug.



-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brian Wilkins
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:43 AM
To: Asterisk-users
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Ramifications of Multiple Sip Reloads
WithinMinutes?

    We have the ability to create random UID's on own system through a
custom 
CGI API. These UID's are written to individual sip configuration files based

on the account name, so for instance sip_TEST.conf, sip_TEST2.conf, and 
sip_TEST3.conf, etc. Many of these UID's are created on the fly and at
random 
times throughout the day. Right now, I have it setup to do a reload every 
night. Would it be damaging to do a "asterisk -rx sip reload" upon the
creation of the UID (peer name)? I am asking because I would like for the 
peer names to be displayed immediately by using the sip show peers command.
I 
am not interested in realtime because I am running stable 1.0.3 only and
also 
it does not provide the qualify functionality I so desire.


-- 
Brian Wilkins
Software Engineer
brian@hcc.net

Heritage Communications Corporation
  Melbourne, FL     USA     32935
321.308.4000 x33
http://www.hcc.net

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