[Asterisk-Users] TE410P - one way audio, after 'rpm -qa' on RedHat 9

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 22:50, andrewg at felinemenace.org wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:35:34PM -0600, Gavin Hollinger wrote:
> > >> > Sounds like an IRQ issue.
> > > Sometimes I find /proc/interrupts useful. if you see a lot of irqs (but
> > 
> > Looks ok?
> > 
> > 
> > cat /proc/interrupts
> >            CPU0       CPU1
> >   0:     922858    1476395    IO-APIC-edge  timer
> >   1:          0          4    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
> >   2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> >   4:          6          2    IO-APIC-edge  serial
> >   8:          1          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
> >  14:       7018       8073    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
> >  15:         33          3    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
> >  16:   11977985   11986942   IO-APIC-level  t4xxp
> 
> Looks a bit to high, but that might be standard. how quickly does it rise if you
> do watch /proc/interrupts? if it raises rather quickly, I'd say its an irq 
> problem. change the location of the boards if possible, and if you don't need
> things like the serial port, disable those in the bios. Combination of those
> should get the problem resolved.

Zapata cards make 8000 irqs a second. There is no buffer so after each
cycle, the computer must service the card. This is true for x100p and
s100U and the others as well as the digital cards. I do believe these
counters roll over also.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>