[asterisk-users] Stable-Stable Asterisk

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 04:00:23PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote:
> With all of that said, I do have a testing setup that allows me to run
> tests at high loads on Asterisk, but not all scenarios can be checked
> in a testing setup. I ran a mid-volume test on 1.4.10 and it worked
> without crashing. I wanted to test a new feature in 1.4 so I put the
> server into production. It worked fine for a few hours under small
> load, but once the load increased there were several issues(mostly
> relating to stuck locks I am guessing) and the server would crash
> every few hours and also have some weird Manager API issues. So after
> a few days I rolled the server back to 1.2.X and all was well again.
> Running the tests again later at a higher call volume and on servers
> with more horsepower revealed the same crashes and other issues as I
> noticed in production.

Here's a secondary question (and Matt, I *do* plan to get around the
damned corner to one of your meetups one of these days :-):

Just how easy is it to roll back to the older release when the feces
hit the fan?  Seems like making that simple would be pretty important?
(Context: my boss is about to tip on playing with Asterisk, finally..)

Cheers,
-- jra
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