[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.0.9 long term stability <--thread hijack, why not reboot?

Colin Anderson ColinA at landmarkmasterbuilder.com
Thu Sep 15 15:26:01 MST 2005


>Agreed but again -- you designed for this specific purpose.  Asterisk isn't

>meant to boot up, answer the phone, process the call and shut down again 
>until the next ring.  (This would be an interesting approach to power
savings 
>though if your system boot time was fast enough and call volumes varied 
>enough to make it worthwhile.)

That's a friggin cool idea. I wonder if someone on the list will be inspired
enough to run with this:

http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/FAQ#What_is_LinuxBIOS.3F

Current fastest boot time is 3s. You can have a flash filesystem for
Asterisk, which is supported. How would ring detection work? You would need
a "Wake on POTS" or something like that. 



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