asterisk users - Nov 2012 - dialplan reloading

If I issue a "dialplan reload" and some AGI starts as its reloading
and "directs" something into the diaplan that is still reloading

what happens????

I presume my context is not there?

What I see is the diaplan is messed up somehow and I goto the default 
context
then after that it is messaged up until I stop and restart.

How do i prevent this from happening?

Thanks,

jerry

Hi Jerry,
 From the Asterisk CLI, enter the command "core restart when 
convenient", this command will restart asterisk only when there is no 
incoming call, and when it will close all outgoing calls.
With a restart of asterisk should reload all the information: 
extensions, sip, agi, iax, voicemail, etc.

Danilo

Il 01/11/12 23:30, Jerry Geis ha scritto:
> If I issue a "dialplan reload" and some AGI starts as its
reloading
> and "directs" something into the diaplan that is still reloading
>
> what happens????
>
> I presume my context is not there?
>
> What I see is the diaplan is messed up somehow and I goto the default 
> context
> then after that it is messaged up until I stop and restart.
>
> How do i prevent this from happening?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jerry
--

> Hi Jerry,
>   From the Asterisk CLI, enter the command "core restart when
> convenient", this command will restart asterisk only when there is no
> incoming call, and when it will close all outgoing calls.
> With a restart of asterisk should reload all the information:
> extensions, sip, agi, iax, voicemail, etc.
>
> Danilo
>
Danilo,

Ok - but then what if a call comes in "while" it decides to reload -
or
if an AGI is started "while" it decides to reload -   Sure there is
nothing
happening at that moment - but lets say "right" after it decides that
its "convenient" and before its done - something gets started.

What to do about that?

Jerry
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On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 06:25 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > Hi Jerry,
> >  From the Asterisk CLI, enter the command "core restart when 
> > convenient", this command will restart asterisk only when there
is no
> > incoming call, and when it will close all outgoing calls.
> > With a restart of asterisk should reload all the information: 
> > extensions, sip, agi, iax, voicemail, etc.
> > 
> > Danilo
> > 
> Danilo,
> 
> Ok - but then what if a call comes in "while" it decides to
reload -
> or 
> if an AGI is started "while" it decides to reload -   Sure there
is
> nothing
> happening at that moment - but lets say "right" after it decides
that
> its "convenient" and before its done - something gets started.
> 
> What to do about that?
> 
> Jerry
> --
Sorry to step in here but I think the 2 of you are talking at cropp
purposes

I initial query was about a dialplan reload, not an asterisk restart.

Jerry, how long does your system take to perform a dialplan reload?
surely it is under a second. 

If you look in the logs, at the end of any dialplan reload (well in 1.8
at least) you will get some time stats such as below

[2012-10-29 00:10:03] VERBOSE[19096] pbx.c:     -- Time to scan old dialplan and
merge leftovers back into the new: 0.000041 sec
[2012-10-29 00:10:03] VERBOSE[19096] pbx.c:     -- Time to restore hints and
swap in new dialplan: 0.000003 sec
[2012-10-29 00:10:03] VERBOSE[19096] pbx.c:     -- Time to delete the old
dialplan: 0.000004 sec
[2012-10-29 00:10:03] VERBOSE[19096] pbx.c:     -- Total time
merge_contexts_delete: 0.000048 sec

As you can see in this example it takes under a ten thousandth of a
second.

Is that something to really be concerned about?

Regards

Ish


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