[asterisk-users] Asterisk in Production ?

[lordfuknowsyou]

Vinícius Fontes wrote:
> There were some really unstable Asterisk releases in the 1.4 branch. I personally use 1.4.13 or 1.4.15 in production. Every single time I tried 1.4.16 or higher I had problems.
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> Vinícius Fontes
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> ----- "Steve Totaro" <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> escreveu:
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>> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Benoit Plessis <benoit at plessis.info>
>> wrote:
>>     
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>  I'm wondering what version of asterisk people use in production
>>>  environnement ?
>>>  on which distribution ?
>>>
>>>  And what is your setup like ?
>>>
>>>  We are actually running an AsteriskNow appliance with asterisk
>>>       
>> 1.4.18.1
>>     
>>>  and it's quite unstable.
>>>  We have ~30 IAX2 SoftPhones and encounter some "Avoiding IAX
>>>       
>> destroy
>>     
>>>  deadlock"
>>>  and now that we have added a Queue, it's worse than ever. The queue
>>>       
>> goes
>>     
>>>  stuck quite often
>>>  (agent are stuck in 'In use' state and if they logoff they can't
>>>       
>> log-in
>>     
>>>  till an asterisk restart).
>>>
>>>
>>>  regards
>>>
>>>       
>> I am personally a proponent of Asterisk 1.2.X as I see more and more
>> fatal bugs in the 1.4.X code come up on the lists as well as IAX2
>> bugs.  I constantly hear "Asterisk 1.4.whatever is much better, but
>> the bugs coming out are not just unexpected behavior that one could
>> live with, they are segfaults, system crashes, modules not getting
>> installed (Zaptel).
>>
>> I use SIP since I have seen quite a few issues with IAX2 that were
>> solved by simply switching to SIP.
>>
>> The above two yield solid systems under heavy load for me.  OS is not
>> so important I do not believe.  I have some running FC8 and more
>> running CentOS, both rock solid.  I think the general consensus on OS
>> is use what you are most familiar with.
>>
>> While these may not be popular opinions, I still ask, what does
>> SwitchVox use?  What do some of the guys around here that setup large
>> systems use?  Is ABE even using 1.4 yet?  All I see in the ABE
>> release
>> notes is 1.2 although I have heard that ABE should be running 1.4
>> "Very Soon" many many moons ago
>> http://www.digium.com/en/docs/ABE/README .  So either Digium doesn't
>> trust 1.4 enough to use it for ABE or the README is out of date.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Totaro
>>
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I use 1.4.18 with no problems. We have quite a few users(125 total 
between branches), but the call volume at the most has been around 15 
active calls at a time.