[asterisk-users] Stable-Stable Asterisk

[Julian Lyndon-Smith]

Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article <46CF40D2.20707 at dotr.com>,
> Julian Lyndon-Smith <asterisk at dotr.com> wrote:
>> We have been running 1.4 since July 06 (it was trunk then), and have 
>> upgraded often with the 1.4 branch (Currently on SVN-branch-1.4-r77571).
>>
>> We have 100+ extensions (SIP) and 30 ISDN channels. We often have 50+ 
>> agents available for outbound calls and queues (20+ queues). We are 
>> making / receiving approx 5000+ calls per day.
>>
>> We use jabber and odbc heavily (updating / reading / Creating) as well 
>> as using odbc for cdr records.
>>
>> All calls are recorded (monitor at the moment).
>>
>> We use SMS inbound and outbound.
>>
>> This is on a dell 2850 with 2gb ram (top - 21:31:11 up 246 days).
>>
>> Asterisk has System uptime: 3 weeks, 4 days, 7 hours, 57 minutes, 44 seconds
>>
>> Whilst nowhere near the levels of some other people, for our purposes, 
>> 1.4 is working very very well for us, and the development guys have our 
>> gratitude and respect. It's a damn fine piece of work that has saved my 
>> company a lot of money in the 2 years we've been using asterisk.
> 
> But it appears that you are not using IAX. I suspect until extremely recently
> it is IAX that has been the weak link in 1.4, because of the change from
> single-threaded to multi-threaded. The latest work on IAX with astobj2
> looks like it should solve this at last!

This is also true - there have been a lot of fixes for IAX recently. We 
simply have no need for it at the moment.

Julian

> 
> Cheers
> Tony