[Asterisk-Users] Crashed Asterisk

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:55, Clif Jones wrote:
> Thanks for the truly useful feedback.  I'm having a real hard time with 
> the FAQ pages listing
> RH 8 & 9 FIRST in the list of Linux distros that Asterisk compiles and 
> runs on and having
> any bugs (oh I mean RH problems) discarded.  It would be much more help 
> to have responses
> such as yours or to have RH removed from the supported distro lists if 
> it truly does not work right with
> Asterisk.  It would also be useful for the experts to tell everyone else 
> which Linux distros are
> supposed to work 100% with Asterisk.
> 
> One more question for the enlightened:  How does the Debian Distro 
> (Woody and greater) play with Asterisk?

Other than a few documented problems with RH that have workarounds
posted to the list, all distros should work. After all it is linux and
most of us are running the same software, just at different releases. So
please understand that you will need to be a competent admin to get very
far here. If you don't feel like you are skilled enough to fix most
problems in a hurry, then you may need to think about hiring such talent
if your project is critical. If this is home tinkering, then this will
eventually cause you to learn quite a bit.

All in all, distros are just crutches to get you into linux. Once you
are here, you still need to learn how to do most things that the distro
would otherwise do for you. It will make you a better person in the long
run. 

All this said by a definite Debian supporter. I run asterisk without
problems on Debian machines, but I wouldn't necessarily place the credit
on Debian so much as the ability to get the right packages in place.  

> >> ------------------------
> >> > 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
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Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>