[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk overheating on VIA Epia M Series motherboard

[Paul]

I was under the impression that VIA sells the product as a mb/cpu combo. 
I know that the older fanless products were something like 533 mhz and a 
few months later I saw them offering 800 mhz fanless so I figured the 
poster was using some newer faster VIA fanless product. I thought 
anything requiring a fan would have it included in the combo. Would that 
mean the user has overclocked or changed the cpu/cooling hardware himself?

The VoIP Connection wrote:

>The EPIA M runs fanless at 600Mhz.  If you are running it at 1Ghz you need a
>fan.
>
>http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81
>
>Having said that, Asterisk can overwhelm these boards unless you run a very
>lean distro and configuration.  They are beautiful little machines but they
>are designed for maximum reliablility at a relatively modest level of
>performance.  Codec transcoding is not possible for more than a few
>channels.  Running a full PRI on a Digium TE110 is pushing it, especially
>with echo cancellation.  It should handle a TDM04B just fine though.
>
>We run Fedora Core 3 on these with no problems.  You could try running "top"
>to see which process is chewing up your cycles.
>
>Michael Crown
>Managing Partner
>www.thevoipconnection.com
>321.989.6728 ext. 611
>sip:611 at voiceserver.thevoipconnection.com
>
>
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Angus Comber [mailto:angus at iteloffice.com] 
>>Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 4:52 PM
>>To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk overheating on VIA Epia M 
>>Series motherboard
>>
>>
>>Hello
>>
>>I am running Asterisk on SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 on a VIA 
>>Epia M Series motherboard - CPU runs at 1GHz.  There is no 
>>fan - just a large heatsink. 
>>Currently system is running off standard IDE hard drive - 
>>because I couldn't get astlinux to run with my Digium TDM04B 
>>card (only PCI card in system).
>>
>>Strangely I also have the same system also running SUSE Linux 
>>running as a file server and that does not run so hot and 
>>does not overheat?  Why the difference?
>>
>>Just booting up both systems for 15 minutes you can tell the 
>>Asterisk box is quite a bit hotter.  Also the Asterisk box 
>>overheated (well think that was the problem) and stopped 
>>operating as PBX at one stage.
>>
>>Anyone any experience of this sort of thing?  any ideas how 
>>to fix - ideally I don't want to have to fit a fan.
>>
>>Is SUSE not the best distro to use for this sort of thing?  
>>Should it be something to take up with VIA?
>>
>>Angus
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