[asterisk-users] Very high translation costs for g729

Julian J. M. julianjm at gmail.com
Sun Nov 5 14:53:28 MST 2006


Try forcing asterisk recalculate those costs:

CLI> show translation recalc 20

Julian J. M.

On 11/5/06, Avi Miller <avi.miller at squiz.net> wrote:
> Hey gang,
>
> I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I've just noticed that on
> two of my five Asterisk boxes (CentOS 4.4, Asterisk 1.2.12.1), I'm
> getting the following translation cost for g729:
>
> asterisk*CLI> show translation
>
> Server 1: g729     -    26    25    25    25    25    24    26
> -    53    36
> Server 2: g729     -    66    65    65    65    65    64    69
> -    90    75
>
> On my other three boxes, I get much saner vaules (costs anywhere from
> 3 to 6).
>
> Any ideas why two boxes have such high costs? All the servers run the
> same OS, updated to the same versions of everything, including
> kernel. Four of the five boxes run x86_64 kernels, with the two that
> are playing up both running x86_64 kernels.
>
> I've switched the entire network to using Speex instead of g729 until
> I find out why I'm getting such high numbers here. I suspect (but
> can't prove) that this may have been the cause of some audio issues
> between these two servers as the phones on either end use alaw, so
> Asterisk is transcoding to g729 across the IAX2 link.
>
> Thanks,
> Avi
>
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