[asterisk-users] My Phone Review- Large Scale Corp Deployment.

[Steve Edwards]

I think you're getting confused with the top/bottom posting or something. 
I'll reformat in the order the posts were posted.

> On 11/2/06, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
>> I'm running CentOS 4.4, Asterisk 1.2.13 on HP DL380's. My application
>> is mostly meetme conferences being created and closed all day long.
>> Peak load is around 200 SIP calls.
>>
>> I was crashing 7 to 10 times a day until I booted a non-SMP kernel. I
>> haven't had a crash since. Meetme does not play well with SMP.

> From: RR [mailto:ranjtech at gmail.com]
>
> I have constantly got conflicting reports about meetme and can't really make
> up my mind to actually put meetme into service till I find something better
> or just stick with meetme and be happy? I like the features it has but
> performance wise I have heard all sorts of things, yours being the most
> positive so far. so just wondering if I can learn something from you.

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, shadowym wrote:

> Steve,
>
> I am running EXACTLY the same software as you.  SMP kernel and all.  Are you
> using the IDENTICAL non-SMP kernel verision# ?  No crashes at all here for
> the 2 weeks it has been up but we don't use meetme.

I complained about constant crashes in meetme that disappeared with a 
simple reboot to a non-SMP kernel (yes, the exact same version number).

RR replied with questions about my meetme configuration.

You (shadowym) replied saying you're running an SMP kernel, but not 
meetme.

I'm not surprised you're not crashing. It's the combination of SMP and 
meetme that is unstable. Others have said they are running SMP and meetme 
and not crashing so maybe the HP DL380's have some unique problem with 
SMP. Or maybe their callers are not constantly creating and closing 
conferences. Most of the crashes appeared to be when a channel or a 
conference was free'd.

I tried with every version from 1.2.9 through 1.2.13.1 and several SVN's 
in between. Not a single configuration was stable until the light bulb 
when on and I tried a non-SMP kernel. Not a single crash since.

Thanks in advance,
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