[asterisk-users] Is Asterisk ready for Prime-Time?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:08:18PM -0400, Howard Leadmon wrote:
> 
>  Sure some others on here may disagree, but I am also over on the trixbox
> forums, and have often seen talk about the 2.6.9 kernel having interrupt
> issues, and such that cause asterisk issues.  One reason I think they moved
> forward into the CentOS 5.x stuff, so they got the 2.6.18 kernel, which I am
> told works much better, and doesn't have the issues the old kernel did.
> 
>  So not sure what all is causing your issues, but guess it's possible some of
> them could be kernel related.  Threads like this over there talk about 2.6.9
> kernel issues:
> 
> http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/2-3-0-3
> 
> 
>  I am guessing this would apply to a general Asterisk install as well, my
> apologies in advance if I am wrong on that one. Anyway I hadn't seen anyone
> talk about issues with the 2.6.9 kernel, but with all the chatter on the other
> forum, I figured it was at least worth a mention.  Overall the CentOS stuff
> seems great, and a fairly decent base to run Asterisk from. Also CentOS 4.x is
> up to 4.6 I believe, so sure lots of updates and fixes over the older 4.4
> release...

Note that Trixbox (<= 2.2) uses kernel from CentOS 4.3 . Generally it 
seems that CentOS-based distributions tend to pick some initial kernel
and stick with it, even though CentOS provides newer ones with bug
fixes.

-- 
               Tzafrir Cohen
icq#16849755              jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
+972-50-7952406           mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
http://www.xorcom.com  iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir