Glad to hear things improved. Asterisk and virtualization do make troubleshooting a little bit more interesting.
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -----Original Message----- From: "Adam Ronthal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:37:56 To:[email protected] Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] recording and playback sound poor quality I made the following changes: 1) Went from 2 virtual CPUs down to one, and booted the non smp kernel 2) Added the following to my kernel boot parameters: noapic clock=pit nolapic nosmp I had already set the guest to synchronize with the hosts time using vmware tools. Things are now much improved with only the occasional static... -Adam On 3/5/07, Adam Ronthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The nerd vittles build did not seem to help. I believe this is > related to timing issues with vmware and clock virtualization. > > References: > > http://www.trixbox.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=308&forum=2&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&start=40 > http://www.vmwarez.com/2006/09/vmware-friendly-asterisk-based-trixbox.html > > I'm going to try a couple of things: > > - changing clock settings in the kernel > - disabling SMP > - Other things as listed in the VMWare Timekeeping whitepaper > (http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/resources/238) > > > Will post results here when I get a chance. > > -Adam > > On 3/3/07, Adam Ronthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This post seems to address the issue... I'll try the nerdvittles build > > later this weekend and post the results here. > > > > http://www.vmwarez.com/2006/09/vmware-friendly-asterisk-based-trixbox.html > > > > -Adam > > > > On 3/3/07, Adam Ronthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Interesting... trixbox is running under vmware esx 3 with 2 virtual > > > CPUs and 256MB ram allocated. > > > > > > I'm quite willing to play with the kernel to try and address this... > > > any good pointers as to what might be the specific issue? > > > > > > The esx kernel is 2.4.21-37.0.2.ELvmnix > > > > > > The CentOS kernel is 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp > > > > > > -Adam > > > > > > On 3/3/07, Sacha Panasuik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The usual things to look at: > > > > 1) Type of cpu and cpu specific settings in the bios > > > > 2) Ensure no irq conflicts > > > > 3) Some motherboard chipsets are not especially asterisk friendly > > > > > > > > > > > > Also, there have been reports of problems like this running with some > > > > combinations of vmware and trixbox (mostly to do with the kernel being > > > > run). > > > > > > > > It can sometimes be a little tricky to find an effective combination of > > > > hardware and kernel version and ??? Version that all get along. But a > > > > basic asterisk system as you have described does not need crazy new > > > > hardware - I ran very well on a celeron 350 Mhz with a similar setup. > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: "Adam Ronthal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:21:02 > > > > To:[email protected] > > > > Subject: [on-asterisk] recording and playback sound poor quality > > > > > > > > Hi folks - > > > > > > > > I'm fairly new to Asterisk/Trixbox, but learning more daily... my > > > > setup is as follows: > > > > > > > > Trixbox 2 > > > > - FreePBX Administration 2.2.0rc3 > > > > - Asterisk 1.2.13 svn rev 47264 > > > > > > > > One active trunk configured with les.net for DID and > > > > termination/origination > > > > One grandstream budgetone 200 SIP phone > > > > > > > > My inbound and outbound calls are all good and working perfectly... > > > > however, when accessing the Asterisk internal recording (e.g. > > > > voicemail, IVR, etc...) the sound quality on the line is poor with > > > > lots of crackly and static. I'm running with fairly close to default > > > > settings, and have not played with different codecs yet. > > > > > > > > The host system appears to have adequate resources -- no swapping, no > > > > heavy load on the CPU -- and the LAN is 100-Base-T throughout. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? Looking for some basic guidance.... > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > -Adam > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
