Michael,
Is memory leak still as much an issue with 1.2.7 versus 1.2.5? In other words, is it worth it to upgrade a working, memory-leaking 1.2.5 to 1.2.7 or 1.2.8 just to potentially encounter other bugs in the new versions? Have other people been satisfied with the new versions so far? I have Polycom 501s and 301s. Call transfers are prone to crashing the system, getting sent to the wrong phone, etc.
Huh... interesting... I had (and actually still do) have 1.2.5 version perfectly; it's been >60 days since the last restart so I figure I would have noticed memory leaks until now. This system is in a small real estate office with 15 extensions but with hundreds of calls a day, plenty of transfers. However, it's SIP only, no hardware, no IAX. Perhaps the memory leaks are specific to certain hardware or protocol or activity. Anyway, I'm not going to argue there are no memory leaks -- if you have them, try an upgrade :).
Is there some sort of rollback function? I'm considering having a second PBX box for the upgraded version, then keeping the working production system as a backup.
Yes. Here's what I do. I symlink the executable asterisk -> asterisk-1.2.5 and directory modules -> modules-1.2.5. When I want to switch versions, I change the symlinks for those two keeping everything else the same. No problems going back and forth, at least not between 1.2.x versions. When you build asterisk, don't do a "make install" but simply copy the executable to asterisk-VERSION and all .so files from the build directory to modules-VERSION -- i.e. cp -a `find -name '*.so'` /usr/lib/asterisk/modules-VERSION/. I run this in a chrooted environment, but you don't have to.
My PSTN providers are voipjet (out) and Axvoice (in). Sometimes we have dropped calls incoming, or busy lines outgoing. Anyone else using good service providers they can recommend?
That's something to the -biz list, probably but you may contact me off list if you need suggestions. --Luki _______________________________________________ --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
