On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 12:59 +0000, Gavin Hamill wrote: [snip] > What kind of CPUs are you using? Also, single or dual (or a single with > hyperthreading ?) What onboard L2 cache do they have? My last hope is to > try a P4 machine with 1MB cache, since the others I've used have 512K.. > > They're all Dell machines - and I know the reaction that usually evokes > when dealing with Digium hardware (been there, seen that...) - I thought > someone like Sangoma with many more years in the business would be more > immune to things like this :(
Been a while since I used Asterisk on a Dell box but I remember I had to turn off HT. Have you tried that? Think you can do it either in the BIOS or booting the kernel with "noht". On Dell boxes I have also seen some funky "NMI received for unknown reason. Dazed and confused" messages in /var/log/messages. There is some boot option called "nmi_watchdog" that can be set at 0 or 1 that perhaps solves that one. When things get really weird try reseating the memory modules. And if you have a dual Xeon box and only one cpu shows up when booting Linux try reseating the processors too. While you are at it reseat everything you can find :) As a test you can also disable the onboard nic and stick in a quality nic on its own interrupt to see if that helps. And off course disable in the BIOS everything that you do not use (serial/parallel/usb etc.). Regards, Patrick _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users