asterisk users - Aug 2004 - 2.4.x-SMP vs. 2.6.x-SMP

Hi *,

I want start with a setup of Asterisk with a clean PC.
This PC is a SMP-Machine with two 466MHz CPUs, a Acer ISDN card and a
AVM Fritz! PCI card.
Which Kernel is better for my constellation (Asterisk with SMP, CAPI and
ZAPHFC)?
Kernel 2.6.x or Kernel 2.4.x?

Regards
	Bastian

I think I'm going slightly mad.....

I've got a Dell PowerEdge 400SC (Cel 2.4GHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD) that
I'm
using to set up a * PBX for a (very) small startup.
It's running Debian Sarge with the stock 2.4.26 kernel (I know it's
still an
"unstable" release, but  I'd need to jump through all sorts of
hoops to get
Woody working properly). The plan is to use a BRI ISDN for inbound, and 
fallback outbound, and IAX2 for the bulk of outbound calls over ADSL 
(dialing _9X goes over IAX and _8X over ISDN. Nothing more complicated than 
that). I'm using a generic HFC-S card from Billion.

I'm using vanilla bri-stuff-0.1.0-RC2k from www.junghanns.net and everything
looks right. There are no errors or warnings during startup. It seems to 
work correctly (well SIP and IAX2 anyway) until I try to dial out over the 
ISDN line.
I get the following:
*CLI>     -- Executing Dial("SIP/602-9964",
"Zap/g1/226581") in new stack
Aug 11 11:51:08 NOTICE[245775]: app_dial.c:719 dial_exec: Unable to create 
channel of type 'Zap'
  == Everyone is busy/congested at this time

There are channels there:
*CLI> zap show channels
   Chan Extension  Context         Language   MusicOnHold
 pseudo            default         en         default
      1            default         en         default
      2            default         en         default

and the zaptel, zaphfc, isdn and hisax modules are loaded correctly in the 
kernel.

for anyone who's interested, the config files are at
http://www.garypigott.net/files/asterisk/extensions.conf
http://www.garypigott.net/files/asterisk/modules.conf
http://www.garypigott.net/files/asterisk/zapata.conf
http://www.garypigott.net/files/asterisk/zaptel.conf

I've looked at the previous thread, started by Wim Venneman in February, but
it doesn't apply, because I can see channels in asterisk.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Gary

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Hello

2.6 scheduler performs in O(1), it will perform much better in 
multi-processor environment than the 2.4 series

Jean-Yves

On 11/08/2004, at 8:00 PM, Bastian Schern wrote:
> Which Kernel is better for my constellation (Asterisk with SMP, CAPI 
> and
> ZAPHFC)?
> Kernel 2.6.x or Kernel 2.4.x?
>
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