[Asterisk-Users] Extreme delay before * processes call files

[Jay Milk]

Remco Barende wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I'm using Asterisk 1.2.7.1. with FreePBX 2.0.1 on a CentOS 3.7 box.
> On the * box I also have a samba share where our CRM app can dump call 
> files and a cron script is moving the call files every second to the 
> asterisk directory.
>
> Everything goes really quickly, the call file is placed on the samba 
> share and very quickly moved to the asterisk dir, so far so good.
>
> But then the call file just keeps sitting in the 
> /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing  directory and it seems that * is doing 
> nothing with it?? Only after 10-30 seconds sometimes even much longer 
> the call file is picked up.
Are you *sure* you set up cron to run every second?  I'm not aware of 
any official way to schedule cron-jobs more than once per minute... and 
that would probably explain what you're seeing.