[asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.

2009-07-21 Thread Barry L. Kline
I'm trying to install my first channel of FAX. When I run the benchfax utility, I get to various stages and then the program simply hangs. There is no excessive CPU utilization and the benchfax program readily responds to ^C. Sometimes I get fairly far into the test, other times it hangs almost

Re: [asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.

2009-07-21 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Barry L. Kline wrote: Is there a newer version of this software and can anyone give me an indication if they, too, have had this problem and what they did to get past it. No, version 1.0.7 is the latest version of benchfax. The program takes steps to handle the problems that occur when the

Re: [asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.

2009-07-21 Thread Barry L. Kline
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: You say it has stopped at different points as you've run different tests; can you verify that? If it always stops at 'nocona', that would mean one particular type of problem, but if it stops at various different places, then that would point to something very

Re: [asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.

2009-07-21 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Barry L. Kline wrote: What is a reasonable time for this entire test suite to finish, if it completed normally? There are 15 CPU flavors being tested, and each one will take 3-5 seconds to complete; certainly no more than one minute, on an otherwise idle system. As you can see from your 'time'

Re: [asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.

2009-07-21 Thread Barry L. Kline
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: If you can, run it again under 'strace', capture the output, compress it with gzip or bzip2 and email it to me directly; that may give us a clue what it was doing. Requested strace output sent. Barry ___ -- Bandwidth and