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I wasn't intending to blame Ira for his own problems - I was intending
to point out that running a production system on discarded hardware is
a really bad idea.<br>
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I wasn't even suggesting a mammoth server - as you may or may not have
seen in my subsequent reply to him, the place I work for sells fairly
low-end servers as Asterisk boxes which (at least in Australia) are
comparable to mid to upper-mid range desktops in terms of pricing. 90%
of the serious reliability problems I've seen are on hardware that
people have taken the really cheap route on.<br>
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Most people seem to think that Asterisk is a really cheap PBX. While
Asterisk is certainly <i>cheaper</i> than just about all comparable
PBXs, if it's to be done properly and reliably it's certainly not dirt
cheap. Evaluating Asterisk certainly can be since if it's only a test
system, you can scrounge up some older hardware. The real mistake is
in putting the older hardware into full production.<br>
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Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 06:21:15PM +1100, Rob Hillis wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I would suspect that your hardware is the cause of your problems.
Running a production PBX system on a discarded desktop system is a
/really/ bad idea.
I would seriously consider an upgrade to your hardware.
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Well, there is not enough data to suggest that. Before blaming Ira for
being such a cheap fellow (after all, he didn't buy one of those IBM big
iorns to run Asterisk on) we should also consider that the upgrade to
1.4 probably also involved an upgrade of Zaptel, which *is* kernel
space.
And maybe there was soemthing completely different. Which is why I asked
for a trace, to give some sort of direction to see where the problem
comes from.
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