[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk overheating on VIA Epia M Series motherboard

[The VoIP Connection]

The EPIA M runs fanless at 600Mhz.  If you are running it at 1Ghz you need a
fan.

http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81

Having said that, Asterisk can overwhelm these boards unless you run a very
lean distro and configuration.  They are beautiful little machines but they
are designed for maximum reliablility at a relatively modest level of
performance.  Codec transcoding is not possible for more than a few
channels.  Running a full PRI on a Digium TE110 is pushing it, especially
with echo cancellation.  It should handle a TDM04B just fine though.

We run Fedora Core 3 on these with no problems.  You could try running "top"
to see which process is chewing up your cycles.

Michael Crown
Managing Partner
www.thevoipconnection.com
321.989.6728 ext. 611
sip:611 at voiceserver.thevoipconnection.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angus Comber [mailto:angus at iteloffice.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 4:52 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk overheating on VIA Epia M 
> Series motherboard
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> I am running Asterisk on SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 on a VIA 
> Epia M Series motherboard - CPU runs at 1GHz.  There is no 
> fan - just a large heatsink. 
> Currently system is running off standard IDE hard drive - 
> because I couldn't get astlinux to run with my Digium TDM04B 
> card (only PCI card in system).
> 
> Strangely I also have the same system also running SUSE Linux 
> running as a file server and that does not run so hot and 
> does not overheat?  Why the difference?
> 
> Just booting up both systems for 15 minutes you can tell the 
> Asterisk box is quite a bit hotter.  Also the Asterisk box 
> overheated (well think that was the problem) and stopped 
> operating as PBX at one stage.
> 
> Anyone any experience of this sort of thing?  any ideas how 
> to fix - ideally I don't want to have to fit a fan.
> 
> Is SUSE not the best distro to use for this sort of thing?  
> Should it be something to take up with VIA?
> 
> Angus
> 
> 
> 
>