[Asterisk-Users] Crashed Asterisk

[Patrick Cantwell]

Just for the record, I'm using a slackware 9.0 and a slackware 9.1 box
with asterisk, and I had no problems obtaining, building/compiling, or
running asterisk with a fresh install.

-Pat

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, 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?
>
> duncan wrote:
>
> >
> >> ------------------------
> >> > 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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