[asterisk-dev] hints and BLF behaving strange in 1.4.18/19

[John Lange]

So are you saying that when a pile of those queued messages show up, if
you connect with another console they suddenly all clear?

John

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 10:17 +0300, Rus V. Brushkoff wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2008, John Lange wrote:
> 
> :We have recently taken the plunge and begun installing or upgraded our
> :clients to the 1.4.x strain of Asterisk.:
> :Clients are now reporting some very strange behaviour with the way hints
> :and BLF indications are working with reception phones.
> :Some calls show no call progress indication or continue to show
> :indications long after calls are answered or hungup.
> :However, now it takes asterisk a very long time to get all the lights
> :lit up and then they stay stuck that way for up to a full hour. It seems
> :something has gone wrong with the way Asterisk handles hints making it
> :very slow and inefficient.
> 
> [...]
> 
> :As you can see, the notify for ringing is sent to the device
> :0008000000f8x1, but all the further progress messages are "queued" and
> :remain that way long after the page is completed.
> 
>  I see this too on latest asterisk versions. The fast solution found - 
> open 'asterisk -R' on some console - all the 'queued' messages begin to 
> deliver as fast as should.
> 
> :
> :In our example only the Aastra 57i with 560M sidecar was tested. It's
> :not so easy to swap out the switchboard but it can be done if the
> :problem is suspected to be in the console itself.
> 
> Strange, it doesn't depend from the console loglevel - the problem 
> remains even if the console is silent while BLF is changing.
> 
> :
> :
> 
> 		Rus
>