[Asterisk-Users] Is asterisk that unstable ????

[brian at txshirts.com]

This is the age old difference between Microsoft environments and
Unix/Novell environments.

I like to joke that Microsoft uptime is measured in hours....
Unix/Novell is always in years,months, and days.

Although, I have to admit that Win 2k (server) and XP have substantially
improved uptime and install lifetime.  A lot of that can be traced back
to "leave it the **** alone if it works!"

I would be surprised if * actually HAD to be rebooted or restarted on
any frequency.  I suspect maintenance and changes would force restarts
more often then clutter. 


Brian Greul
Texas Shirt Company
www.txshirts.com
713-802-0369 / 713-861-6261 (fax)

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:critch at basesys.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 8:43 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is asterisk that unstable ????

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 08:52 -0500, Greg - Cirelle Enterprises wrote:
> from voip-info wiki
> 
> 
> Asterisk automatic daily restart
> 
> To automatically restart Asterisk you can add something like this to 
> cron
> 
> # Restart Asterisk PBX once a day to prevent any problems from piling 
> up 10 7 * * * root /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "restart now" >/dev/null 
> 2>&1
> 
> or
> 
> 10 7 * * * root /usr/sbin/asterisk -r -x "restart gracefully" 
> >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> 
> Does this software have substantial problems that one would have to do
this???

There may be certain days when you check asterisk from the -HEAD branch
that might be less stable than other days. 

The comments above seem to come from a certain type of "admin"
personality. That personality is rampant in MS Windows shops and in some
big iron shops. 

Right now this is the uptime from my main PBX.
phone*CLI> show uptime
System uptime: 21 weeks, 21 hours, 16 minutes, 50 seconds Last reload: 1
week, 1 day, 15 hours, 53 minutes, 40 seconds


As of this message, we have run about 7200 calls this month alone, or
about 250 calls average per day right now.

For November and December minus 2 days, 15300 calls or about 259 calls a
day average.

I don't have problems.
--
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>

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