what is wrong with running asterisk with the -pg flags at startup?
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 19:13 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Matt Schulte wrote: > > Had a good question for the list, it seems whenever I work in an > > Asterisk console or on the machine normally I get jitters on any audio > > going through it. Especially if you did file copies or a 'ps ax' for > > example. I was wondering if there was a proper way to 'nice' the > > asterisk proc's? Cisco does this for example to it's "EXEC" and icmp > > processes, I tried reniceing the asterisk processes with very bad > > results, especially when I/O (voicemail, etc) comes into play. I'm not > > swapping out or anything, ideas? > > > > > Since VoIP is a real time activity, simple "nice" really isn't enough. > What you should do is mark the Asterisk proccess as a real time task for > the Linux kernel to schedule accordingly. You can do this with Asterisk > by passing the "-p" option to the Asterisk command line. > > A warning is due here: real time priority scheduled tasks are not > something to be toyed with. You need to be root to be able to turn on > this feature (meaning you have to be running Asterisk as root). A bug in > Asterisk, a problem with mpg123 or a red alert on a FXO card can very > well leave your system completly non responsive - so use with care. > > Having said that, I've been running an Asterisk server on a machine > which is also used as SOHO firewall and file server for year now and it > works great. > > Hope this helps, > Gilad > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
