Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi Jim, Jim Van Meggelen wrote: Getting dedicated IRQs for the cards is a minor problem compared to what happens when you have four cards hammering away mercilessly at the chipset and CPU of your motherboard; 1000 IRQs per second, per card. Nobody's really sure what's wrong, but it causes

RE: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-13 Thread Grady Trew, Jr.
Getting dedicated IRQs for the cards is a minor problem compared to what happens when you have four cards hammering away mercilessly at the chipset and CPU of your motherboard; 1000 IRQs per second, per card. Nobody's really sure what's wrong, but it causes problems for pretty nearly

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-13 Thread mike+asterisk-users
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:15:18PM -0600, Grady Trew, Jr. wrote: Getting dedicated IRQs for the cards is a minor problem compared to what happens when you have four cards hammering away mercilessly at the chipset and CPU of your motherboard; 1000 IRQs per second, per card. Nobody's really

RE: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-13 Thread Jim Van Meggelen
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grady Trew, Jr. Sent: December 13, 2004 4:15 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc Getting dedicated IRQs

RE: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-12 Thread Jim Van Meggelen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Please excuse me asking this again. But it really puzzles me. It is puzzling, no denying it. The development team is still struggling with these issues, and so far there has not been found a foolproof solution (at least I can't recall having seen one). We're

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-10 Thread Christopher Dobbs
I have done multi-TDM4xx cards in a box. DO NOT TRY THIS!! Sorry for yelling but, Our system worked, and I use that term loosely, for about a week. The hardware simply cannot handle the onslaught of IRQ's that this causes. We got popping and beeping, and dead lines. We put each card in a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Dave Cotton
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 14:23 +0200, Shoval Tomer wrote: Hi. Please excuse me asking this again. But it really puzzles me. We're installing asterisk at a branch office at NJ (HQ is at Petach-Tikva) It'll need to support 5 POTS lines, 11 analog extensions and four VOIP phones. I wanted to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
So I thought of installing a combination of four pci cards in the machine, and everybody on the list just keeps telling me it won't work. You have 5 POTS lines and 4 X100P cards? Sounds like a complete drag... At any rate, why don't you buy a TDM400P with 4 FXO ports? I've bought one off

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Steven Critchfield
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 14:23 +0200, Shoval Tomer wrote: Hi. Please excuse me asking this again. But it really puzzles me. Asking multiple times does not change a proper answer. We're installing asterisk at a branch office at NJ (HQ is at Petach-Tikva) It'll need to support 5 POTS lines, 11

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Fernando MacĂ­as
I've been running an Asterisk box with 4 FXO ports and 12 FXS ports for months. The cards are sharing interrupts. The machine has one network card too. The system behaves very well. In my experience, putting multiple TDM cards in one box works. I've not been so lucky with multiple T1/E1 cards,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Rich Adamson
I have installed successfully more then four cards in a machine before. I had a firewall with eight network interfaces (one quad card, one duo and two singles) I have machines with two dialogic boards, a pci display card, and a network interface. And I know I've had machines at home that had

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Matthew Boehm
You need to understand that the Digium cards generate 1000 interupt requests per second per card. So 4 Digium cards generate 4000 interupts per second. Your system will start to buckle under the load if you had enough of a computer to begin with. (Pardon my hardware ignorance) Why do the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
Matthew Boehm wrote: You need to understand that the Digium cards generate 1000 interupt requests per second per card. So 4 Digium cards generate 4000 interupts per second. Your system will start to buckle under the load if you had enough of a computer to begin with. (Pardon my hardware

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Steven Critchfield
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 10:27 -0600, Matthew Boehm wrote: You need to understand that the Digium cards generate 1000 interupt requests per second per card. So 4 Digium cards generate 4000 interupts per second. Your system will start to buckle under the load if you had enough of a computer to

RE: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Shoval Tomer
-Users] four wildcards in a single pc I've been running an Asterisk box with 4 FXO ports and 12 FXS ports for months. The cards are sharing interrupts. The machine has one network card too. The system behaves very well. In my experience, putting multiple TDM cards in one box works. I've not been so

RE: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Shoval Tomer
- Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc I have installed successfully more then four cards in a machine before. I had a firewall with eight network interfaces (one quad card, one duo and two singles) I have machines with two dialogic boards

RE: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Rich Adamson
- From: Rich Adamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 5:39 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc I have installed successfully more then four cards in a machine before. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Peter Svensson
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Steven Critchfield wrote: Digium cards need 1000 interupts per card per second due to the lack of onboard buffer. The buffer was left off of the design to keep the design simple and therefore inexpensive. All the cards present 8 bits of data per channel during that

Re: [Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

2004-12-09 Thread Steven Critchfield
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 20:59 +0100, Peter Svensson wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Steven Critchfield wrote: Digium cards need 1000 interupts per card per second due to the lack of onboard buffer. The buffer was left off of the design to keep the design simple and therefore inexpensive. All the