[Asterisk-Users] mpg123 or asterisk

[Steve Totaro]

It has crashed an SGI Altix 350 on a dialy basis.

MBIT Technologies wrote:
> Can MAD crash a server like mpg123 can?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Lee Archer
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 5:06 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] mpg123 or asterisk
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> Can't you use mpg123 as compiled under x86_32?  I do on a few servers I
> have.  I found madplay better process wise than mpg123.
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> Regards
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> Lee 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Erick
> Perez
> Sent: 29 May 2006 21:37
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] mpg123 or asterisk
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> Well, being unable to compile mpg123 under x86_64 i installed lame and
> transformed the mp3-->wav-->raw.
> and using "files" as the format player.
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> Are there any good scripts to stress test MoH?
> I want to test this machine for 1000 "calls" on hold.
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> http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/astertest.html
> AsterTest is good but i dont have access to another * installation.
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> On 5/27/06, Steve Totaro <stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com> wrote:
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>> Please let us know your results.  I cannot really test this in 
>> production system since it is a $16,000/hr call center.  I was using 
>> madplay but it was crashing and creating zombie processes, I figured 
>> native was not the way to go since all of the different audio streams.
>> Mpg123 works perfectly for me under a load of sixty channels, I can 
>> confirm that for sure.
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>> Thanks,
>> Steve
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>> Erick Perez wrote:
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>>> Interesting.
>>> So, i will have to test then...
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>>> On 5/27/06, Steve Totaro <stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com> wrote:
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>>>> In my very limited testing of native, each channel was receiving a 
>>>> different stream (each caller heard something different).  Under a 
>>>> high volume of calls, which is going to hurt performance more?  
>>>> Transcoding MP3s but sending a single stream or separate streams 
>>>> per call under native?
>>>>
>>>> When I say high, I mean 1,000+ calls.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Steve
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>>>> Erick Perez wrote:
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>>>>> Thanks to all. Native format will be.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/27/06, Matt Riddell (IT) <matt.riddell at sineapps.com> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Vahan Yerkanian wrote:
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>>>>>>> Erick Perez wrote:
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> should I use mpg123 with asterisk 1.2.7 or should i use the 
>>>>>>>> native player asterisk has?
>>>>>>>> the target machine will receive heavy load.
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>>>>>>> mpg123 was used back when asterisk didn't have native format
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>>>>>> support. If
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>>>>>>> you are expecting heavy load, the native format is the way to
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>>>> go. You
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>>>>>>> might decide not to use mp3 format at all, recompressing your 
>>>>>>> MoH
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>>>>>> files
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>>>>>>> using sox to the formats you gonna use, such as .al, .ul, 
>>>>>>> .gsm, or
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> leave
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>>>>>>> it at .sln to cut the decoding leg only.
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Heh, damn this GPRS connection.  In order to pass the time while
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>>>>>> downloading messages I reply before they are all in, and yet by
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>>>>>> I have received all the messages I note that your question has
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>>>>>> been answered!
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>>>>>> :)
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>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Matt Riddell
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