So, it tastes great AND it's less filling? ;-) On 5/29/06, Mark Spring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can concur with the sound quality. I've installed asterisk on many > different platforms and with almost nothing else installed. My current > platform has almost as little running as astlinux...but we know that's > not completely possible unless it's astlinux. Everything I have read > leads me to believe that it is simply the native sounds. This produces > less load on the entire system. That's my two cents.. > > Mark > > On 5/29/06, Michael Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Much of what you describe may be attributed to not having a GUI running > > while Asterisk is working. Any heavily interrupt driven process, such as a > > GUI, can interfere with Asterisk. > > > > Michael > > > > --Original Message Text--- > > From: Arne Gylseth > > Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 07:08:48 +0200 > > > > > > Hello everybody ! > > > > I have carried out a number of test installations of Asterisk on different > > PC platforms. > > > > My conclusion based on experience only is that Astlinux gives a quality of > > sound that is allways superior to Asterisk installed on a more complex Linux > > distros. > > > > I have tried a number of Asterisk installations on Linux distros like SME > > server and Clarkconnect to see if it not could be practical and usable to > > run Asterisk just as an background process on a server, doing mainly > > something else. Asterisk installations has been done based on different > > versons of Asterisk sourcecode and some precomiled rpms. > > > > My experience is the same all the time - If Asterisk is installed on a > > general server with a lot of processes running this allways lead to a > > reduced analog sound quality. > > > > The way that I think the sound quality is reduced is that this more complex > > Linux distros tends to give Asterisk a some sort of "semi duplex caracter" - > > If the two persons are talking at the same time it tends to give some sort > > of "ultrashort pauses" that makes the analogue sound to "float not so nice > > and smoot as it should". The sound easyaly and usually sound like "poor > > digital sound quality". > > > > Astlinux allways gives a "smooth and nice running analog sound" without any > > hearable degradation of the analogue signal. > > > > I have tested different installations on the same hardware and with the > > same identical set of configuration files, and I think that the difference > > is there all the time. > > > > One other thing that I have noticed is that the load on the processor is > > smaller when a telephone call is running via Astlinux compared with asterisk > > on a mor complex Linux distro. (Difficult to measure presicely but it looks > > like a difference something like 10:1 or 5:1, 0.9 % processor load for a > > call on SME server (a bit more than 100 processes running), 0.1 % processor > > load on Astlinux on same hardware and same configuration files.) > > > > I have lately been testing a bit on one AMD XP 1500 / 512MB pc with a > > standard Asterisk sourcecode installation on Clarkconnect and Astlinux on a > > HP Compaq T5000 thin client. It looks like that the Astlinux on the small > > thinklient outperformes the PC installation completely. (Its Astlinux > > version 3.0 because the thin client has only a 32 MB onboard memory.) > > > > I find these observations allmost hard to believe. It is digital sound > > processing, and it should not behave like this, but it does (??) > > > > I am courios to know - is this observations only my observations or my > > "believe" or is these observations that other Astlinuxusers also have done ? > > > > If it should be like this, how could it then work like this, how could > > digital sound processed on one platform sound different from digital sound > > processed on another platform, when Asterisk configuration files and > > hardware is identical the same. > > > > Still I ask myself - can this really be true ? > > > > > > Best reg Arne > > > > > > -- > > Michael Graves > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sr. Product Specialist > > www.pixelpower.com > > Pixel Power Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > o713-861-4005 > > o800-905-6412 > > c713-201-1262 > > fwd 54245 > > _______________________________________________ > > Astlinux-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] >
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