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

[Gordon Henderson]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Norman Franke wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2008, at 12:59 AM, asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com 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.
>
> I've also found that I can't get ztdummy working on anything less than 
> 2.6.23.11. Previous versions seem to have a broken RTC.

It works fine...

# uname -a
Linux dsx 2.6.18DSX1-CN #8 PREEMPT Fri May 18 16:13:30 BST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
zttranscode             6408  0
ztdummy                 2632  0
zaptel                182788  4 zttranscode,ztdummy

# zttest -v
Opened pseudo zap interface, measuring accuracy...

8192 samples in 8192 sample intervals 100.000000%
8192 samples in 8184 sample intervals 99.902344%
8192 samples in 8192 sample intervals 100.000000%
8192 samples in 8184 sample intervals 99.902344%
8192 samples in 8192 sample intervals 100.000000%
8192 samples in 8192 sample intervals 100.000000%
8192 samples in 8184 sample intervals 99.902344%
8192 samples in 8192 sample intervals 100.000000%
8192 samples in 8184 sample intervals 99.902344%
--- Results after 9 passes ---
Best: 100.000000 -- Worst: 99.902344 -- Average: 99.956597


This is running on a 1GHz VIA C3 processor - no RTC, custom compiled 
kernel and zaptel compiled from source...

Gordon