asterisk users - Jan 2008 - G.729 pre-compiled binaries and Asterisk 1.2.x.

Asterisk 1.2.24 seems to crash repeatedly under any substantial call load
(and sometimes without a substantial call load - just one SIP leg is 
enough to do it) when using the G.729 pre-compiled binaries from:

 	http://asterisk.hosting.lv/

As per:

 	http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+G.729+Licensing

Time to crash is variable, but seems to require at least an hour of 
production performance (50+) to get there.  Sometimes a little less, but
not much.

Has anyone else experienced this, and anyone know what gives?  My first 
thought would be a slight incompatibility between the binary and the
instruction set for the CPU that is only triggered sparsely.  However, I 
am confident I have the correct instruction set matched to my CPU (Xeon).

Thanks,

--
Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
Web    : http://www.evaristesys.com/
Tel    : +1-678-954-0670
Direct : +1-678-954-0671

On Jan 14, 2008 5:09 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
wrote:
>
> Asterisk 1.2.24 seems to crash repeatedly under any substantial call load
> (and sometimes without a substantial call load - just one SIP leg is
> enough to do it) when using the G.729 pre-compiled binaries from:
>
>        http://asterisk.hosting.lv/
>
> As per:
>
>        http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+G.729+Licensing
>
> Time to crash is variable, but seems to require at least an hour of
> production performance (50+) to get there.  Sometimes a little less, but
> not much.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this, and anyone know what gives?  My first
> thought would be a slight incompatibility between the binary and the
> instruction set for the CPU that is only triggered sparsely.  However, I
> am confident I have the correct instruction set matched to my CPU (Xeon).
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Alex Balashov
> Evariste Systems
> Web    : http://www.evaristesys.com/
> Tel    : +1-678-954-0670
> Direct : +1-678-954-0671
>
> <http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users>

I would suggest building it yourself (
http://www.readytechnology.co.uk/open/ipp-codecs/doc-svn6.txt).  It is not
that difficult and ensures that it "should" be compatible with your
machine.  Just a little work.

Either that or pay for the legal licensing of G729 and get support through
the appropriate channels.  Using the code for anything other than learning
purposes is illegal, not to mention that licensing is quite inexpensive.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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Steve Totaro wrote:
> 
> I would suggest building it yourself 
> (http://www.readytechnology.co.uk/open/ipp-codecs/doc-svn6.txt 
> <http://www.readytechnology.co.uk/open/ipp-codecs/doc-svn6.txt>).  It
is
> not that difficult and ensures that it "should" be compatible
with your
> machine.  Just a little work.
> 
Has anyone tried building this on Solaris, I just had a look at the link 
and it looks like the Intel IPP stuff is only released for Windows, 
Linux and MAC. And the v32 G729 codec from Digium does not load within 
asterisk on Solaris, sooo, the Solaris users out there dont have much 
support when it comes to G729 codecs, a real pity really, this stops 
some large scale roll-outs.