Steven, If we grant that you are correct and that Digium and friends are making hobbyist products..... Then what are the "serious" installs using? We're serious to the tune of 5 FXO ports and 3 FXS ports and I want to make sure we don't waste time on flaky hardware. I figured that as Digium built the hardware and wrote the original code they probably know it better then anyone else. You just seem to know a lot about the serious installs so I'm curious what you use and how many lines you run with it.
Btw, we are a textbook "small office" install according to the docs. Also what the heck is FC? Brian Greul Texas Shirt Company www.txshirts.com 713-802-0369 / 713-861-6261 (fax) -----Original Message----- From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 2:07 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Qs about FXO/FXS cards On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 09:06 +1300, Richard Scobie wrote: > > Steven Critchfield wrote: > > > Okay, link this to my rambling above and you would see that by > > thrashing the disk, you are actually keeping the spindle spooled up > > and not measuring the spool up draw. My guess is a spooled down > > machine getting a random incoming call that then must generate ring and spool up the > > HD(s) to start writing logs at the same time on a questionable PSU. > > ??! Who set's up servers with hard drives that are spun down? > > Powered down hard disks are for laptops and specialised setups where > power consumption is critical. These are probably not where people > install serious asterisk servers. And we come full circle to a comment I made before that TDM cards are more for hobbyist than for real serious installs. A real install is probably going to use a T1/E1 interface and bypasses all the troubles listed in this thread. So far I don't trust that many of the people using TDM cards are the ones who will tweak a system into a serious install. Look at previous threads about system load spikes where we have to pull teeth to get people to swap out of a FC kernel and into a generic kernel. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ 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
