[cagab]

I have a test system up and running... Older PentiumIII 450Mhz with 256MB RAM.. running Asterisk@Home ver 1.5. I've noticed that my RAM utilization creeps up to 98% about a day after reboot from around 40% immediately after reboot. I have about 10 stations configured and 2 softphones (x-lite, idefisk) and 1 hardphone Grandstream BT102 attached. No apparent phone user problems show up at this time. Anyone else out there with the same experience? Any soloution or insight appreciated. Will be changing the box to something more substantial in the future, but this has me a bit concerned for now.

[mberlant]

As long as you don't see any performance impact you probably needn't worry about this. As you have already learned by reading the previous postings here, Asterisk runs quite well on machines much older/slower/smaller than yours. My Pentium I 200MMX with 96MB RAM and 3GB HDD handles about 25 extensions, 20 services, voice mail, IVR, hot desking, etc., and seems to be within its limits. I have had as many as 8 simultaneous calls without trouble. You are more likely to run out of bandwidth than horsepower in your configuration.

[AlexanderBell]

Linux will always consume all the memory you've got. It's not a memory leak. It's a way of maximizing performance compared to Windoze machines.