[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Sat Jun 17 23:03:02 MST 2006


On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:31:54PM -0500, Aaron Daniel wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> 
> >Other applications can handle it. Don't see why Asterisk can't. Mount the 
> >nfs volume with the -soft option. Do a 'df -k' and you will see that the 
> >df command will time out in a couple of seconds. Why can't Asterisk do the 
> >same?
> 
> Just gonna throw gas on the fire.  df -h doesn't continuously poll the 
> drive for data, asterisk is (for mwi).  So each timeout turns into another 
> timeout.  Didn't you already test changing the time on checkmwi?   And did 
> it not change the behavior (not necessarily for the better)?

Your theory is easy to check with watching the state of the main
asterisk thread, or maybe strace -p MAIN_ASTERISK_PID  .

If it remains hung constantly in a D state on the same system call, a shorter 
timeout just wouldn't have helped.

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