[asterisk-users] Asterisk, Zaptel and the Kernal Compatibility Matrix

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:59:14AM -0500, Matt Florell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This was about a year ago when we abandoned putting new systems on the
> 2.4.33 kernel. About that time we started having other vendors stop
> supporting it very well also so it wasn't only that card that we were
> having issues with. The problems were related to the CRC Linux modules
> and zaptel not liking them in 2.4.

Try again, then. In the recent monthes there were some 2.4-specific
compilation fixes.

> 
> One very interesting side note, on identical hardware we got 5-10%
> better Asterisk performance on a 2.4 kernel than we got on 2.6
> kernels.

Interesting regression. Zaptel is generally a program that stresses some
parts of the ernel in unexpected ways.

> 
> Overall we are happy with 2.6 and it's new features and we don't
> really want to go back at this point. I just wanted to mention our
> experiences with kernel problems.

Good and detailed bug reports are always welcomed.

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