On 2/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric ManxPower Wieling</b> <<a href="mailto:eric@fnords.org">eric@fnords.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Matt wrote:<br>> Ok, so, Eric, if what you say is true. Then the Digium card should be fine<br>> "sharing" an IRQ with a NIC in the BIOS. However, digium is insisting<br>> that<br>> this is causing audio to go dead silent for 10-30 seconds every no and
<br>> then. Your thoughts on this?<br><br>If you were running in XT-PIC mode and the two were actually sharing<br>interrupts I can't imagine any situation where the audio loss would be<br>10-30 seconds, as that would indicate that the system was not servicing
<br>the interrupts from the Zaptel card for 10-30 seconds.<br><br>If something was locking interrupts for that long I would expect other<br>issues like the keyboard and video not responding during that time.<br><br>Have you tried disabling the onboard ethernet? GigE drivers seem to
<br>lock interrupts for massively long amounts of time to keep up with the<br>avalanche of data coming off the wire. This happens even when the<br>device is not sharing an IRQ.</blockquote><div><br><br>I have not tried disabling the onboard IRQ. I think at this time, I am just going to order a server from MBX (they use SuperMicro boards) and be done with Dell for servers. The server we are trying to replace is an IBM. I'll stick with Dell for my web servers, but VoIP is going to be MBX.
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