asterisk users - Apr 2006 - Extreme delay before * processes call files

Hi list!

I'm using Asterisk 1.2.7.1. with FreePBX 2.0.1 on a CentOS 3.7 box.
On the * box I also have a samba share where our CRM app can dump call 
files and a cron script is moving the call files every second to the 
asterisk directory.

Everything goes really quickly, the call file is placed on the samba share 
and very quickly moved to the asterisk dir, so far so good.

But then the call file just keeps sitting in the 
/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing  directory and it seems that * is doing 
nothing with it?? Only after 10-30 seconds sometimes even much longer the 
call file is picked up.

There is no message on the * console about a call file being present.

Does anyone have a clue why asterisk fails to pick up call files 
within a reasonable amount of time? The load on the box is 0.05 at most.

Thanks!!
Remco

Remco Barende wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I'm using Asterisk 1.2.7.1. with FreePBX 2.0.1 on a CentOS 3.7 box.
> On the * box I also have a samba share where our CRM app can dump call 
> files and a cron script is moving the call files every second to the 
> asterisk directory.
>
> Everything goes really quickly, the call file is placed on the samba 
> share and very quickly moved to the asterisk dir, so far so good.
>
> But then the call file just keeps sitting in the 
> /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing  directory and it seems that * is doing 
> nothing with it?? Only after 10-30 seconds sometimes even much longer 
> the call file is picked up.
Are you *sure* you set up cron to run every second?  I'm not aware of 
any official way to schedule cron-jobs more than once per minute... and 
that would probably explain what you're seeing.

I guess that I'm the only one experiencing this problem.... is there any 
way to debug this problem?

Does anyone know how to debug this particular item in *? (Or should I open 
a bug in Mantis?)

Thanks!!



On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Remco Barende wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I'm using Asterisk 1.2.7.1. with FreePBX 2.0.1 on a CentOS 3.7 box.
> On the * box I also have a samba share where our CRM app can dump call
files
> and a cron script is moving the call files every second to the asterisk 
> directory.
>
> Everything goes really quickly, the call file is placed on the samba share 
> and very quickly moved to the asterisk dir, so far so good.
>
> But then the call file just keeps sitting in the
/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing
> directory and it seems that * is doing nothing with it?? Only after 10-30 
> seconds sometimes even much longer the call file is picked up.
>
> There is no message on the * console about a call file being present.
>
> Does anyone have a clue why asterisk fails to pick up call files within a 
> reasonable amount of time? The load on the box is 0.05 at most.
>
> Thanks!!
> Remco
>