asterisk users - Nov 2005 - MOH/Media Server

Is there a way to have a separate MOH/Media server for playing music  
and/or audio prompts/files?

I have an * box where calls come in and sit in a queue until an agent  
is available. I noticed that at the end of the day, I end up with a  
bunch of "zombie" mpg123 processes for calls that were once on hold  
and this seems to be eating up memory.

I thought that I could just have a media server that when a call is  
placed on queue in the * box for the agents, it would use minimum  
resources from that box and just use the resources of another box.

Is it possible? Is there a more efficient/better approach?

Thanks,
Waldo

> I have an * box where calls come in and sit in a queue until an agent  
> is available. I noticed that at the end of the day, I end up with a  
> bunch of "zombie" mpg123 processes for calls that were once on
hold  and
> this seems to be eating up memory.
There should not be several zombies remaining, there is something 
wrong with your configuration.
> Is it possible? Is there a more efficient/better approach?
An simple solution would be replaying the MP3 files by RAW files and 
use "cat" as player. There are instructions as www.voip-info.org 
available how to do that.

Elmar