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

[Satish Patel]

I don't understand what you guys talking about? You mean say there is  
a issue in ubuntu kernel to use asterisk?

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On Apr 11, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>  
wrote:

> 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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