I have never had to play with setpci before. Can you elaborate on the use and purpose of this command?
On 5/12/05, Colin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They instantly got us to look at the output of zttest and we found that > this was (in their words) 'extremely low', with 'best' and > 'worst' > readings of 99.975586% and 99.963379% respectively. > > Might want to give PCI latency setting a try, it helped for me. My ZTTEST > would drop occasionally to 99.95% until I set: > > setpci -v -s 01:01.0 latency_timer=ff <--Digium PRI card > setpci -v -s 01:04:0 latency_timer=ff <--Digium 401 4 X FXS > setpci -v -s XX:XX:X latency_timer=0 <--1 entry for every other PCI card in > system from LSPCI output, modify XX:XX accordingly > > Before setpci I would get best in ZTTEST at 99.987793% and worst ~ 99.95% > > After setpci best is 100% and worst is 99.987793% consitient. > > I use SpanDSP to recieve faxes and before faxes were garbled and now they > are OK (BTW, now recieving ~150 faxes a day 99.95% OK, so SpanDSP *does* > work fine, you just have to set it up right. Ask me how.) > > I put the setpci statements in /etc/rc.d/rc.local before my modprobes to the > Digium hardware and Asterisk startup. > > I'm using a 4-way Netfinity FC2 * 1.0 stable > > I dunno, maybe the community is being too hard on Digium about the design of > the card. I can understand their perpective, it's brutal to make a card that > has to have such tight tolerances and make it work acceptably on the huge > variation in white box hardware (or black box, in your case). There's a page > on the Wiki about motherboards that work well with installation notes but > that's pointless since motherboards are such a moving target. Even the > motherboard vendor screwing around with BIOS updates can invalidate that > information. > > What I think is best for Asterisk implementation is for Digium to sell a > motherboard. No, seriously. Find a ECS or Abit or ASUS mobo that > consitiently yields 100% or 99.9999% and white-box it as a barebones kit > with a TXXX card. Sell it as a case, good PSU, mobo, and TXXX card - you add > your own RAM, NIC, CPU & HDD. Would you buy one for $699? I probably would. > It took me a couple of months of fooling around with my Netfinity before I > was pleased with the performance and satisfied that it would handle the > things I wanted it to do without choking. If I had the option of saving the > couple of months time obsessing over things like timing for $699, it would > have been a no brainer. Digium wins too, because they get an incremental > sale that they can make money on (margin on the mobo) and lower support > costs because they don't have to chase down IRQ latency phantoms. > > hth my 2c > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users