[Asterisk-bsd] Reliability

[Vince Vielhaber]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Tim St. Pierre wrote:

> I just set up Asterisk 1.4.11 on a FreeBSD 6.2 system, and have been testing
> it for the last month or so.
> I have a single FXO interface installed to provide timing.  The server is a
> Compaq DL380G2 with Dual 1GHz Xeon chips and about a Gig of ram.
>
> When I was running Linux, it was a pain to administer, but didn't give me any
> grief.  Now, I'm having calls not hungup, unexplained asterisk core dumps,
> unsuccessful calls, and calls dropped when they are on hold.
>
> All channels are SIP only.  No g729, no transcoding, just pure SIP.
> I haven't seen a load average greater than 0.3 on this machine.  I usually
> don't get more than 16 channels at once, and see about 20,000 calls per
> month.
> I'm thinking I should go back to Linux, but I really would prefer BSD.
>
> Am I doing something wrong here, or is the BSD port just not as reliable?

Tim, I've been running asterisk on FreeBSD for a bit over 3 years now. 
The current setup is a 750MHz PIII with 256MB ram and 6.2.  The previous
was on a dual 550 Xeon running 4.7.  The current one has a single FXO
in it (X101P).  Both machines are Dell servers.

I've never had a core dump and the only problems I've had were minor 
config issues (the kind that are staring you in the face and you still 
don't see them) and changes that my voip provider made that I didn't 
catch.

The asterisk version I'm currently running is 1.4.0 (one day I'll get 
energetic and upgrade it).

Have you analyzed the core dumps to see why or where it fails?

Vince.
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