[Asterisk-Users] Re: Dell PowerEdge SC420 interrupt issue

[Peter Svensson]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Paul Redstone wrote:

> We're using an SC420 and using BRI with a quadbri Junganns card, with IAX 
> softphones and one hardphone.
> 
> Working well except that we sometimes get dropped connections between IAX and 
> the server with a max retries exceed message, which comes from the chan_iax 
> driver code. The BRI side of things looks like it is fine.
> 
> I had been thinking it might be a network issue but now wonder if it is an 
> interrupt or other background process issue causing a timeout on the Dell - 
> hence my post as it might be the same cause as yours. We're about to 
> concentrate on this hypothesis. If it is then it could perhaps be due to:

You could try running Asterisk with realtime privileges and see if it 
makes any difference. This will make the userland code preempt any other 
userland code. 

Peter