[Asterisk-Users] Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and TE4110P and TE110P

[Steven]

What were the kernel parameters that you changed? (what OS, by the way?)

I am running CentOS 4.3, but have not changed any kernel settings yet.


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Steven

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"Remco Barendse" <asterisk at barendse.to> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0605312134150.10748 at raveon.vaag.nu...
> On Wed, 31 May 2006, whois wes wrote:
>
>> Sorry I'm late, just joined the list.
>>
>> We have 400 seats spread across 8 Dell 2805's, and were running TE410P's in
>> all of them.  After six months of troubleshooting call drops, static, and
>> random server lockups, we moved 4 of the servers to Sangoma A104d's last
>> week.  The problems we were having have basically disappeared.
>>
>> Keep in mind, this is after trying PCI based NIC's and ensuring there were
>> NO IRQ's being shared, messing with APIC, ACPI, irq latency, and a host of
>> other settings - NOTHING seemed to help, until we dropped the Sangoma in and
>> installed the drivers.  It's been smooth sailing since.
>
> Thanks for your input. I preferred to buy the Digium card to support the Asterisk project.  To say the least I'm not very 
> impressed with the 2850 but I must say that with the right kernel parameters the box has been in production since May 1st and I 
> have not have not had any problems or lockups yet. The 2850 has a TE210P installed but call volume is very low, only incoming on 
> one PRI connection maybe 5-8 simultaneous channels and on the second port max 2 channels in bridged mode for fax. (Soon to be 
> replaced with iaxmodem+hylafax)
>
> Cheers!
> Remco
>
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