asterisk users - May 2007 - delay in switching between contexts

Hi,

I am facing this issue, where I get a delay of aroud five seconds when
switching between contexts (through extension.conf) . This is how my
extensions looks like.

[salesivr]
exten => _X.,1,NoOp(Incoming call from user ${EXTEN} and caller id
${CALLERID})
exten => _X.,2,Playback(emptyy)
exten => _X.,3,Background(Main_Sales)
exten => _X.,4,WaitExten(2)
exten => _X.,5,Goto(_X.,3)

exten => 0,1,Goto(SalesRep,s,1)
exten => 1,1,Goto(Inquiry,s,1)
exten => 9,1,Goto(_X.,3)

[BalanceInquiry]

;extensions

[Inquiry]

;extensions

When I press a digit in _X,3 or _X,4 it takes some time before switching to
the desired context. When switching context I see this on the cli

Executing BackGround("SIP/103-41220030", "Main_Sales") in
new stack

-- Playing 'Main_Sales' (language 'en')

== CDR updated on SIP/103-41220030

-- Executing Goto("SIP/103-41220030", "BalanceInquiry|s|1")
in new stack

-- Goto (BalanceInquiry,s,1)

It seems the CDR update is eating up time, Can some one suggest whats going
on here and how I can get out of this dilemma. Is there some way I can
disable the CDR writing.

Thanking you in advance,

Danish.
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Danish Samad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am facing this issue, where I get a delay of aroud five seconds when
> switching between contexts (through extension.conf) . This is how my
> extensions looks like.
> 
> [salesivr]
> exten => _X.,1,NoOp(Incoming call from user ${EXTEN} and caller id
> ${CALLERID})
> exten => _X.,2,Playback(emptyy)
> exten => _X.,3,Background(Main_Sales)
> exten => _X.,4,WaitExten(2)
> exten => _X.,5,Goto(_X.,3)
> 
> exten => 0,1,Goto(SalesRep,s,1)
> exten => 1,1,Goto(Inquiry,s,1)
> exten => 9,1,Goto(_X.,3)
Don't use . in your pattern.  . says "wait for 1 or more digits, use a 
timeout to decide if the user is finished dialing"

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 11:49 am, Danish Samad wrote:
> [salesivr]
> exten => _X.,1,NoOp(Incoming call from user ${EXTEN} and caller id
> ${CALLERID})
> exten => _X.,2,Playback(emptyy)
> exten => _X.,3,Background(Main_Sales)
> exten => _X.,4,WaitExten(2)
> When I press a digit in _X,3 or _X,4 it takes some time before switching to
> the desired context. When switching context I see this on the cli
This is because you are telling asterisk to wait for one OR MORE digits, and 
it is waiting to see if you're going to dial any more digits before deciding
that the entire extension has been entered.

Use the various timeout functions to set a more appropriate timeout, or code 
your dialplan to only look for one digit.  i.e. exten => _X  (no trailing . 
(period)).
> exten => _X.,5,Goto(_X.,3)
This works, but looks very odd to me.  Just specify the priority if you want 
to stay in the same extension... i.e. Goto(3).

-A.