On 5/28/2023 11:51 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
On 5/28/2023 6:19 AM, aster...@phreaknet.org wrote:
A great reason to avoid Asterisk packages and compile from source
instead. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches.
That's how I started, by trying to build version 18 from source. It
failed. Colossally. The compile of sources would run for a while,
then the machine would crash spectacularly--I mean, not just hang or
reboot. It actually turned itself off. I tried it several times, and
each time it failed in the same way, but at a different spot in the
compile process. If ever I could figure out a way to trace that one
down, I would. It was the strangest thing.
This sounds like your machine is defective in some major way.
Granted, compiling software is pretty intensive, but your machine
shouldn't just crash. I would try to figure that out. Is this a VM /
bare metal? Have you tried this on another machine?
It's probably eight or nine years old now, an ASRock motherboard with
I don't even know what on it in the way of processor speed or power.
It's not a manufacturer with which I'm familiar, either.
8 or 9 years isn't really that old. I run Asterisk on OptiPlex towers
that are 20 years old, and it works really well. I've actually had more
issues with things that are more compact, like rack servers. What's
important is to have a working, compatible machine in good condition.
Some general observations:
- The CPU doesn't need to great, but it should be sufficient. Any
desktop CPU from the last 20 years should be perfectly adequate.
- Compiling can run into hitches if you don't have enough memory on your
machine. On machines with 1 GB of RAM or less, for example, I've found
that swap space is mandatory to compile very large files (e.g.
chan_sip.c). Otherwise, gcc will just get killed by the kernel
eventually. But you need far more memory when compiling than when
Asterisk itself is running. You could allocate a bunch of swap and
deallocate it after you're done.
I should probably pick up another machine but I can't justify the
expense because it's only for play, FTP, and running this Asterisk
project, which is complete enough now that I don't have to mess with
it any more. Who knows--it might even wind up on a spare Raspberry Pi
4, in which case this whole tower can just go away.
For just SIP stuff, lots of people have used Pis and it works great for
them, so that might not be a bad idea.
You definitely don't need a new machine though. Any old PC lying around
since ~2000 or so will probably do just fine. If you happen to have a
spare handy, you could try it out.
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