<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Folks, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Just wanted to share my successes. I
had been running my home * box on </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">FreeBSD 5.2.1. Switching back
and forth between 1.0.7 and CVS current,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">up until a couple of weeks ago, when
CVS started breaking. MOH was unusable</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">due to mpg123 thread problems.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I had read about the new format_mp3,
but could not get it working under 1.0.7.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I knew I might have some issue with
5.2.1, as most the list messages implied</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">the baseline OS was now 5.3-RELEASE.
So, I booted up off of 5.3 CD and 30 minutes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">later had 1.0.7 running fine.
</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">So, I figured, why not press my luck,
updated CVS, copied in the format_mp3 patch,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">sampled down 4 mp3's with 'lame', and
MOH worked like a champ.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Interesting side note, on 5.2.1,
CPU utilization for a typical IAX bridged call ran</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">about 2-3% with fair amount of run time.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Under 5.3-RELEASE and cvs-current, cpu
utilization is negligble accumulating much</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">less cpu time on-call or with MOH playing.
I haven't looked at it close enough to see</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">if it's just a difference in the way
5.2.1 and 5.3 report utilization, but it appears more</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">work is offloaded to system rather than
user time.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Don't know about stability yet, but
will see after a few days. </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bill</font>
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