Just for the record, I'm using a slackware 9.0 and a slackware 9.1 box with asterisk, and I had no problems obtaining, building/compiling, or running asterisk with a fresh install.
-Pat On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Clif Jones wrote: > Thanks for the truly useful feedback. I'm having a real hard time with > the FAQ pages listing > RH 8 & 9 FIRST in the list of Linux distros that Asterisk compiles and > runs on and having > any bugs (oh I mean RH problems) discarded. It would be much more help > to have responses > such as yours or to have RH removed from the supported distro lists if > it truly does not work right with > Asterisk. It would also be useful for the experts to tell everyone else > which Linux distros are > supposed to work 100% with Asterisk. > > One more question for the enlightened: How does the Debian Distro > (Woody and greater) play with Asterisk? > > duncan wrote: > > > > >> ------------------------ > >> > Stop using RH9 since its majorly broken and that wont happen > >> > >> Since not all of us are so enlightened, please complete the sentence > >> so that at least some of us have a clue as to the non-partisan issues? > >> No offense intended, but there really are folks here that would like to > >> learn from other's experience however boring that might be. > > > > > > my experience with redhat 9 resulted in this nugget of information to > > solve the problems i was having. asterisk threads sometimes cause the > > processor to max out all resources - and when a new thread is > > initiated it takes a while to fight back enough processing power. > > theres a bit of a config that needs to be done to make sure it doesnt > > happen. in /etc/init.d/asterisk (installed by running "make config") > > make sure: > > > > case "$1" in > > start) > > # Start daemons. > > echo -n "Starting asterisk: " > > daemon safe_asterisk > > > > should be > > > > case "$1" in > > start) > > # Start daemons. > > export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 > > echo -n "Starting asterisk: " > > daemon safe_asterisk > > > > this makes redhat 9 use the old thread model rather than the new one, > > and stops asterisk from getting all messed up. this is the only > > change ive had to make to stop asterisk behaving differently from my > > 7.3 and 8 machines. > > > > > > duncan > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
