Hello everybody.

I´m experiencing some problems here and, once i can´t find a way to solve this, i´m trying the forum and your experience and knowledgement.

We develop a PBX Asterisk based. We use Suse 10.2, with kernel 2.6.8, asterisk 1.2.17, zaptel 1.2.17, with one processor P4 2.7GHz and 1GB of ram, using sox, soxmix and lame to encode the calls.

Now we´re using a slackware 12 based system. We´re running kernel 2.6.22, asterisk 1.2.24, zaptel 1.2.20.1, two processors P4 3GHz and 2GB of ram using sox, soxmix and lame to encode the calls.

We don´t have any kind of problems with asterisk running over Suse. There are no problems with audio or processing.

In Slackware 12 i´m experiencing many problems with process. Any kind of process that need the processor is affecting the asterisk, bringing problems with the calls in curse. In Suse it wasn´t happening. I don´t use nice or renice with Suse or Slackware.

Can anybody help me or suggest something?

Thank you.

couple things could be causing this...but before making a good thought or
suggestion, can you tell me the following

1. is the kernel recognizing both CPUs and using them
2. how much memory is in average being used? this may very well be swapping out and causing bottlenecks in disk IO
3. is this box doing anything else except what you mentioned?


I'm really thinking it's either running out of memory and swapping/running out of disk bandwidth. causing wait states

check out load with top and see where the load is.....I can pretty much bet the cpus are spending most of their times in wait states



-Steve

Thanks for your interesting and post Steve.
Actually, the computer have just one physical processor but the kernel is recognizing two processors (ACPI/APM?). The kernel is compiled with SMP support. But i´m not sure if the system is using the two processors. I don´t know if this is the cause of my problem.

About memory questions, see below:

root@slack:~# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2016 1821 194 0 97 1514
-/+ buffers/cache: 209 1806
Swap: 494 2 491
root@slack:~#

To explain you better what´s going on, let´s take this scenario.
Four people on talking on telephone. Then, two hangup and the soxmix/lame starts the convertion of wav to mp3. The other two have their call prejudicated, because the process os soxmix/lame are consuming much CPU.
I don´t know if I was clear, but looks like an "interruption" or "priority" to use the processor.

On Suse 9.2/10.0/10.2/10.3 we don´t have this kind of problem.

I hope it helps.

Thanks again

Hey Steve , I have alreday configured a open source BackupPC-3.1.0. It is installed succesfully and also i configured the perl configure.pl file. But when i m try to open the backuppc in the browser http://localhost/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin.pl it is not open and it shows the error like below..

Not Found

The requested URL /cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin:8080 was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at localhost Port 80

plz try to help me out this problem or give me some suggestion about this ..plzz...I am waiting for ur best response.
Thanx a lot in Advance.