[Asterisk-bsd] Problems using Zaptel-0.11 with a TE110P

[Oleksandr Tymoshenko]

Massimiliano Stucchi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a machine running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p11 with a TE110P, Asterisk
> 1.2.4, libpri 1.2.1, zaptel 0.11 all installed from ports.
>
> This machine had been running fine for almost 6 months with older
> versions of those packages (asterisk 1.0.9, libpri 1.0.9, zaptel 0.10),
> but since I upgraded, I've been having spontaneous reboots happening
> only under load (no nightly reboots) every hour or so, depending on the
> amount of calls.
>
> A few days ago I ran to the datacenter to change hardware, and I changed
> everything except for the Wildcard itself.  What I left out in my rush
> is that the digium was sharing IRQ with the onboard USB controller and
> with the FireWire controller.  No reboots happened in these days, but I
> could see a lot of IRQ misses showing up in zttool, and the accuracy
> measured by zttest was around 99,96 on average.
>
> I had somebody show up and change the IRQ settings this morning, and so
> far I've had two reboots in less than 3 hours.  I see no IRQ misses,
> though, and fax reception works smoothly (some lines lost here and
> there, but it's pretty much acceptable).
>
> To summarize:
>
> Sharing IRQ:
>
> 	- No reboots
> 	- No faxes
> 	- Lots of IRQ misses
> 	- Low audio quality on calls
>
> _NOT_ sharing IRQ:
>
> 	- Good audio quality
> 	- Faxes get through (using spandsp)
> 	- No IRQ misses
> 	- SPONTANEOUS REBOOTS
>
>
>   
    I think this problem refers to fast interrupts/sleep mutexes issue 
discovered by Konstantin Prokazoff.
Try latest svn snapshot from 
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=FreeBSD+zaptel, i've commited
possible fix and will appreciate any testing results. Thanks!

-- 
gonzo