[Asterisk-Users] Crashed Asterisk

[duncan]

>------------------------
> > Stop using RH9 since its majorly broken and that wont happen
>
>Since not all of us are so enlightened, please complete the sentence
>so that at least some of us have a clue as to the non-partisan issues?
>No offense intended, but there really are folks here that would like to
>learn from other's experience however boring that might be.

my experience with redhat 9 resulted in this nugget of information to solve 
the problems i was having.  asterisk threads sometimes cause the processor 
to max out all resources - and when a new thread is initiated it takes a 
while to fight back enough processing power.  theres a bit of a config that 
needs to be done to make sure it doesnt happen.  in /etc/init.d/asterisk 
(installed by running "make config") make sure:

case "$1" in
   start)
         # Start daemons.
         echo -n "Starting asterisk: "
         daemon safe_asterisk

should be

case "$1" in
   start)
         # Start daemons.
         export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
         echo -n "Starting asterisk: "
         daemon safe_asterisk

this makes redhat 9 use the old thread model rather than the new one, and 
stops asterisk from getting all messed up.  this is the only change ive had 
to make to stop asterisk behaving differently from my 7.3 and 8 machines.


duncan