[Asterisk-Users] 2.6.13 Kernels

Dave Cotton dcotton at linuxautrement.com
Mon Jul 11 06:45:06 MST 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 08:31 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> > 100 HZ is a typical choice for servers, SMP and NUMA systems
> > with lots of processors that may show reduced performance if
> > too many timer interrupts are occurring.
> 
> It's always bugged me that my servers have to run with 1000Hz timer 
> frequency just because someone decided that was better for interactive 
> performance, so I consider this a big improvement.
> 
> > 250 HZ is a good compromise choice allowing server performance
> > while also showing good interactive responsiveness even
> > on SMP and NUMA systems.
> 
> And this appears to be the default, as well. This means that USE_RTC in 
> ztdummy is going to be mandatory for 2.6.13+.

I'm now running at 100. Just seems odd to have cat /proc/interrupts
saying that timer is 1/10th of wcfxo/wctdm as they've always been
roughly the same count.

I just hope it sorts out my lockups on the tdm or fxo cards.


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Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>




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