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

[Michael Loftis]

--On September 15, 2005 4:26:01 PM -0600 Colin Anderson 
<ColinA at landmarkmasterbuilder.com> wrote:

>> 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.

Most modern motherboards with some sort of integrated AMR/Modem platform 
support wake on interrupt for com port or for modem activity...

an old style modem, wake on irq for com....hackish. :)  i'm sure that 
someone makes a 'ring to restart' box thoguh too...