[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0017521]: Brief lagginess on IAX2 channels is fatal

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17521 
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Reported By:                jcovert
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   17521
Category:                   Channels/chan_iax2
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     acknowledged
Asterisk Version:           1.6.2.8 
JIRA:                       SWP-1718 
Regression:                 No 
Reviewboard Link:            
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2010-06-17 10:32 CDT
Last Modified:              2010-07-26 07:00 CDT
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Summary:                    Brief lagginess on IAX2 channels is fatal
Description: 
The problem reported in issue https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=15609 and
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=15900 continues:

[Jun 17 09:55:14] WARNING[15579]: channel.c:1044 __ast_queue_frame:
Exceptionally long voice queue length queuing to IAX2/x38-9660
[Jun 17 09:57:54] WARNING[15579]: channel.c:1044 __ast_queue_frame:
Exceptionally long voice queue length queuing to IAX2/x38-9660
[Jun 17 09:57:54] WARNING[15579]: channel.c:1044 __ast_queue_frame:
Exceptionally long voice queue length queuing to IAX2/x38-9660
[Jun 17 09:58:07] NOTICE[15579]: chan_iax2.c:11447 __iax2_poke_noanswer:
Peer 'x29' is now UNREACHABLE! Time: 2
[Jun 17 09:58:07] NOTICE[15579]: chan_iax2.c:11447 __iax2_poke_noanswer:
Peer 'jrclaptop' is now UNREACHABLE! Time: 4
[Jun 17 09:58:07] NOTICE[15579]: chan_iax2.c:11447 __iax2_poke_noanswer:
Peer 'x38' is now UNREACHABLE! Time: 136
[Jun 17 09:58:10] WARNING[15579]: channel.c:1044 __ast_queue_frame:
Exceptionally long voice queue length queuing to IAX2/x38-9660
[Jun 17 09:58:10] WARNING[15579]: channel.c:1044 __ast_queue_frame:
Exceptionally long voice queue length queuing to IAX2/x38-9660
[Jun 17 09:58:10] WARNING[15579]: channel.c:1044 __ast_queue_frame:
Exceptionally long voice queue length queuing to IAX2/x38-9660
    -- Hungup 'IAX2/x38-9660'
  == Spawn extension (dialstation, 38, 1) exited non-zero on
'SIP/x28-0000048b'
[Jun 17 09:58:12] NOTICE[15579]: chan_iax2.c:10418 socket_process: Peer
'x29' is now REACHABLE! Time: 2
[Jun 17 09:58:12] NOTICE[15579]: chan_iax2.c:10418 socket_process: Peer
'jrclaptop' is now REACHABLE! Time: 4
[Jun 17 09:58:12] NOTICE[15579]: chan_iax2.c:10418 socket_process: Peer
'x38' is now REACHABLE! Time: 137

This tends to reproduce for me only on transatlantic calls.

/john

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Relationships       ID      Summary
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related to          0015609 [patch] WARNING[23025]: channel.c:952 _...
related to          0015900 Console flood & CPU load 100% when ...
related to          0017625 "I should never be called!" m...
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 (0125011) hoby (reporter) - 2010-07-26 07:00
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17521#c125011 
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I found that when asterisk have send the manager event AgentConnect the
agent and the caller can hear to each other. Before that, agent pickup the
phone but hear no voice for a while. 

Then i looked up into the app_queue.c; i see that asterisk log into
queue_log before sending the event AgentConnect and just after that bridge
the two channels. So, i suspect logging delay, i decide then to replace the
queue_log file by a null file: just do ln -s /dev/null
/var/log/asterisk/queue_log

When done, things seems goes fine:
- no more warning exceptionally long voice
- when agent pick up the call he directly hear caller voice

So, mine looks to be relative to disk performance. Many months before we
doesn't have this issue with same asterisk and configuration so this can
explain the disk performance when data grows up.

Is it possible to move forward bridging channel before logging into
queue_log inside app_queue.c ? 

Issue History 
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2010-07-26 07:00 hoby           Note Added: 0125011                          
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