[Asterisk-bsd] FreeBSD and Music on Hold -- Possible Fix

[Dr. Rich Murphey]

I had seen intermittent occurrences of mpg123 hogging the cpu with
concurrent absence of music on hold.  It would occur immediately upon
starting asterisk about 1 out of 5 times.

After the patch I haven't seen it happen again, and I can have several lines
on hold with music on hold and none are choppy.

In your case, it appears that there are no music-on-hold 'classes' in the
context.  I'm not certain, but my understanding is that each line below the
line '[classes]' in musiconhold.conf is a class:

[classes]
default => mp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3

Where default would apply to every context except those that have specified
another music on hold class. 

Does that help?

Cheers,
Rich


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-bsd-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-bsd-
> admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chris Stenton
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:26 PM
> To: asterisk-bsd@lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] FreeBSD and Music on Hold -- Possible Fix
> 
> Rich,
> 
> No there is very little additional CPU activity.
> mpg123 process is there.
> mpg123 runs fine standalone.
> 
> I have not looked into the code in great detail but it seems like some
> form
> of select
> or poll issue with asterisk waiting patiently for some MOH event to
> happen.
> 
> I take it that MOH works for you OK.
> 
> Chris
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dr. Rich Murphey" <Rich@WhiteOakLabs.com>
> To: <asterisk-bsd@lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:15 PM
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-bsd] FreeBSD and Music on Hold -- Possible Fix
> 
> 
> > Hmm.. Is asterisk consuming the CPU rather than mpg123?
> >
> > I see an asterisk thread in the same loop, but it's not consuming CPU
> > inordinately because class->members is nonzero.  Is it finding .mp3
> files
> > in the directories specified in musiconhold.conf?
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: asterisk-bsd-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-bsd-
> > > admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chris Stenton
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:00 AM
> > > To: asterisk-bsd@lists.digium.com
> > > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-bsd] FreeBSD and Music on Hold -- Possible Fix
> > >
> > > Rich,
> > >
> > > that makes no difference.
> > >
> > > Sticking asterisk in the gdb I notice that it appears to be in
> > > monmp3thread all the time.
> > >
> > >
> > > In the loop
> > >
> > > for(;/* ever */;) {
> > >
> > > Its doing this
> > > if (class->pseudofd > -1) {
> > > /* Pause some amount of time */
> > >                   res = read(class->pseudofd, buf, sizeof(buf));
> > >
> > > and then this
> > >
> > > if (!class->members)
> > > continue;
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 05:30, Dr. Rich Murphey wrote:
> > > > It appears to be a bug in the FreeBSD mpg123 port.
> > > >
> > > > Try copying this patch to /usr/ports/audio/mpg123/files:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.whiteoaklabs.com/code/patch-mpg123.c
> > > >
> > > > and reinstall it, and see if that fixes it.
> > > >
> > > > mpg123 is going into an infinite loop in
> > > > play_frame() when it sees an end of file
> > > > while trying to read a command.  The patch
> > > > breaks that loop upon an end of file.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Rich
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: asterisk-bsd-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-bsd-
> > > > > admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chris Stenton
> > > > > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:02 PM
> > > > > To: asterisk-bsd@lists.digium.com
> > > > > Subject: [Asterisk-bsd] FreeBSD and Music on Hold
> > > > >
> > > > > I can't get Music on Hold to work  on FreeBSD/asterisk-current. I
> am
> > > using
> > > > > the mpg123 port and once MOH is enabled the loading of the
> asterisk
> > > > > console
> > > > > goes incredibly slowly.
> > > > >
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