[Asterisk-Users] high-capacity systems / trouble with Tyan

[steve szmidt]

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:25 pm, Tim Jackson wrote:
> >From my experience the Tyan Tiger MPX is a great board. I've never used
>
> it with *, but I have been using it as a high volume samba server for
> over a year and its never even hicupped.
>
> 16:24:30 up 197 days, 20:45,  2 users,  load average: 0.94, 0.92, 0.89
>
>
> -Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of mattf
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 4:23 PM
> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] high-capacity systems / trouble with Tyan
>
> Hello,
>
> I've had a Tyan dual Athlon MP(2800) machine for a year now and have had
> several lockups for strange reasons on stock redhat kernel and on custom
> compiled kernel off of Slackware. I've tried every combination of BIOS
> settings and changed out all assiciated hardware and found the problem:
> It's
> the Tyan. I've also had issues with a couple of SCSI RAID cards when I
> tried
> using them with the Tyan card.

The problems motherboards has is not usually very visible to most 
applications. However, when you get an app for which interrupt timings are 
crucial, you'll notice boards that should have no problems, do.

I got a system that cost $15,000 a few years back. It's a dual XEON 550 Intel 
board. You'd think it would do better than a lot of others. In truth it does 
very poorly with Asterisk. It cannot handle one single call without having a 
problem. 

(Since that it has problems with interrupt timing, it might actually work 
better if I remove one CPU ...)


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Steve Szmidt

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