Re: [asterisk-users] ODBC freezing Asterisk 13

2016-07-18 Thread Ernie Dunbar

On 2016-07-14 16:40, Joshua Colp wrote:

Saint Michael wrote:
​Many people are reporting the same issue, so it is not my 
imagination.

Asterisk 13 above 13.1 is useless for anybody who ​relies on
res_odbc.so. As you know, after that version, the dropped the 
complexity

of Pooling onto unix_odbc itself. Not so simple, it seems. I noticed
that after a few hours of inactivity, any call to func_odbc-defined
funcions will block and hang for ever. All we can do at that point is
reset Asterisk.
I think it was highly rushed a decision to drop all the work done in
ODBC inside Asterisk. Maybe unix_odbc pooling is not ready, has bugs, 
it
cannot be used in production. I don't know what the issue is, but I 
had
to downgrade to Asterisk 13.1 and my ODBC problems disappeared. 
Asterisk

did not need to drop the ODBC pooling code. It did work. It should be
fixed, made faster, etc.


This has already been done[1] and will be released in Asterisk 13.10,
which just had an rc3 released. I also sent an email to the list[2]
when the fix went in. These fixes have continued to show no problems
themselves although they just exposed an issue with func_odbc which
was fixed in the rc3 that was just released. There's no issues open
currently against that work.

As for the res_odbc changes themselves which exposed problems in
UnixODBC those went in as of Asterisk 13.8[3], not earlier.

Prior to 13.8 there was no pooling at all.

[1] http://blogs.asterisk.org/2016/06/15/asterisk-odbc-connections/
[2] 
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2016-June/289326.html

[3] http://blogs.asterisk.org/2016/02/17/odbc_gutting/



Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick. And here, I was trying to build a version 
of Asterisk 13.8-cert that 1) absolutely required ODBC because I 
couldn't even build res_config_mysql.so anymore, and 2) I was trying to 
get ODBC working on Ubuntu 16.04, in spite of it being, um, apparently 
completely missing from the OS.


Well, I guess I can give up *that* fool's quest! This post has been most 
illuminating!


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Re: [asterisk-users] ODBC freezing Asterisk 13

2016-07-14 Thread Joshua Colp

Saint Michael wrote:

​Many people are reporting the same issue, so it is not my imagination.
Asterisk 13 above 13.1 is useless for anybody who ​relies on
res_odbc.so. As you know, after that version, the dropped the complexity
of Pooling onto unix_odbc itself. Not so simple, it seems. I noticed
that after a few hours of inactivity, any call to func_odbc-defined
funcions will block and hang for ever. All we can do at that point is
reset Asterisk.
I think it was highly rushed a decision to drop all the work done in
ODBC inside Asterisk. Maybe unix_odbc pooling is not ready, has bugs, it
cannot be used in production. I don't know what the issue is, but I had
to downgrade to Asterisk 13.1 and my ODBC problems disappeared. Asterisk
did not need to drop the ODBC pooling code. It did work. It should be
fixed, made faster, etc.


This has already been done[1] and will be released in Asterisk 13.10, 
which just had an rc3 released. I also sent an email to the list[2] when 
the fix went in. These fixes have continued to show no problems 
themselves although they just exposed an issue with func_odbc which was 
fixed in the rc3 that was just released. There's no issues open 
currently against that work.


As for the res_odbc changes themselves which exposed problems in 
UnixODBC those went in as of Asterisk 13.8[3], not earlier.


Prior to 13.8 there was no pooling at all.

[1] http://blogs.asterisk.org/2016/06/15/asterisk-odbc-connections/
[2] http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2016-June/289326.html
[3] http://blogs.asterisk.org/2016/02/17/odbc_gutting/

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[asterisk-users] ODBC freezing Asterisk 13

2016-07-14 Thread Saint Michael
​Many people are reporting the same issue, so it is not my imagination.
Asterisk 13 above 13.1 is useless for anybody who ​relies on res_odbc.so.
As you know, after that version, the dropped the complexity of Pooling onto
unix_odbc itself. Not so simple, it seems. I noticed that after a few hours
of inactivity, any call to func_odbc-defined funcions will block and hang
for ever. All we can do at that point is reset Asterisk.
I think it was highly rushed a decision to drop all the work done in ODBC
inside Asterisk. Maybe unix_odbc pooling is not ready, has bugs, it cannot
be used in production. I don't know what the issue is, but I had to
downgrade to Asterisk 13.1 and my ODBC problems disappeared. Asterisk did
not need to drop the ODBC pooling code. It did work. It should be fixed,
made faster, etc.
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