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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi, all:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We have a system making a large number of outbound calls
using Asterisk 1.2.4. When the call completes, Asterisk plays a message. There&#8217;s
a Windows box using the AGI interface to make the calls happen. When the system
gets loaded, about 15 &#8211; 20 simultaneous calls, the messages are delayed by
up to 10 or 15 seconds.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Has anyone else seen this? Do you have ideas about what
causes it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Some more details:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

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 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo10'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>No transcoding is going on<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo10'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Asterisk box has 1 BG of RAM,
     CPU load never gets above 5%<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo10'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There are no errors in the
     Asterisk logs<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks! John<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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