[asterisk-users] Ubuntu "*-server" kernels [was: Re: IAX2/0.0.29.199]

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 07:45:01AM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>wrote:
> 
> > Off-topic:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 03:30:58PM +0000, satish patel wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > >   System:                      Linux/2.6.32-24-server built by root on
> > x86_64 2011-03-22 18:38:19 UTC
> >
> > Ubuntu has a separate -server kernel variant. From what I understand,
> > using it is not a good idea on a Asterisk system, as it is intended to
> > an application such as a file server, optimized for higher throughput.
> >
> > Asterisk is closer to a desktop multimedia program, which prefers low
> > latency to high throughput.
> >
> > Is that recommendation still valid?


> Simple answer:
> RTFM
> 
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man7/time.7.html
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1651629
> 
> The "purpose" of the distro sets the timer.  I am sure there is a workaround
> for server to use an Asterisk friendly kernel timer.

Sure. There's e.g. a -preempt kernel variant
( http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/linux-image-2.6.32-24-preempt ).

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