[Asterisk-Users] mpg123 alternative?

[Soner Tari]

Thanks for the info Matt.

I had the zombie issue too. Based on my observations I decided those 
processes were due to safe_asterisk not killing rawplayer (it does mpg123 
processes). So I modified safe_asterisk to do that, and zombie processes 
were gone.

But you may be right, native players may be better. Kevin should know better 
anyway. (However, on my slooow test machine, native mp3 player speeds up and 
down sometimes, so I need every processor cycle. Not a recommended 
configuration on production systems of course.)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Roth" <mroth at imminc.com>


> Soner Tari wrote:
>
>> I vote for the raw file format, due to the reasons listed here:
>> http://www.orderlyq.com/asteriskqueues.html
>>
>> Of course you need to convert all mp3 moh files to raw format manually, 
>> but it's easy as described there.
>>
> We were using the rawplayer method on our server, but it ended up spawning 
> hundreds of zombie processes.  I talked to Kevin Fleming about it, and he 
> recommended switching to native MOH.  Scalability is a big concern of 
> mine, so I asked him about the impact it would have on CPU, memory, and 
> disk utilization.  His response was, "not much, more memory usage though." 
> I could spare the memory, so I gave it a shot.
>
> So far, I'm very impressed.  It eliminated the zombie processes completely 
> and the quality of the playback is *much* better.
>
> Matthew Roth
> InterMedia Marketing Solutions
> Software Engineer and Systems Developer
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