On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:04:08PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2009/2/14 Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il>: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 08:05:06AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > >> 2009/2/14 Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il>: > >> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:54:53PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > >> >> I saw somewhere that the Xen hosts provided by VPSLink already have > >> >> 1000HTz clocks on them, saving a kernel recompilation. > >> > > >> > But is it actually 1000Hz? > >> > >> How can you tell without access to the kernel config? The CPU MHz is 2200. > > > > The experiment below was for sampling the clock Asterisk would get > > OK, I didn't realize that. Will try it later then. > > > > > Anyway, just did that in a Xen host I have (using Debian Lenny) > > > > The Xen kernel does not have CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS set, I could not > > find a working RTC driver, and HZ is set to 250 . > > It doesn't necessarily mean that it's the same on my Xen host. As far > as I follow it's a per-kernel-compilation setting. > > > > >> >> > 1. Debian :-) (As I package Asterisk for it) > >> >> > >> >> I used Debian for over 10 years but now I got used to CentOS (simply > >> >> because it's so much easier to find hosts which support it for my work > >> >> needs). > >> > > >> > I recently looked for unmanaged hosts and there Debian was generally as > >> > common as Centos. Most managed hosts used cPanel and alike that I simply > >> > can't stand. > >> > >> I can't stand cPanel either. With Debian hosting at least on one place > >> (I think Spry, the parent of VPSLink) I got stuck with an old Debian > >> on a Virtuozo VPS which I can't upgrade without just installing the > >> machine from scratch (I know Debian supports in-place upgrades, but > >> the virtual host setup won't allow this). > > > > This is why I go for unmanaged. The box from which I'm writing this got > > upgraded from Etch to Lenny. Generally each Debian system supports the > > kernel of the previous distribution. > > What do you call "unmanaged"? It's a Virtuozo-style host, so the > kernel is dictated by the hosting env. > > The VPSLink service I have is Xen so although they control the kernel > I can pick one of few and probably switch to a new one. > > >> It was 1.6rc1 > > > > That's 1.6.1-rc1 . That is: a release candidate for the branch 1.6.1 . > > A while before that 1.6.0.5 was released, which is the fifth maintinance > > release of branch 1.6.0 . > > OK, I missed that. > > > > >> about three days ago when I looked . I'd rather stick to > >> something which reached .23 for now. > >> > >> > > >> > 1.4 is still being maintained, but not sure for how long. > >> > >> 1.6 was rc1 just this week. > >> > >> Are you saying that once I decide to go with Asterisk I also have to > >> keep close chase of their latest release in order to have it supported > >> (i.e. bug and security fixes)? > > > > The closest thing I found for describing it is: > > http://www.asterisk.org/node/48539 > > > > At the moment 1.4 is still supported, but I'm not sure I'd use it for > > new installations. > > Thanks for the pointer. It looks like the relevant sentence was cut in > the middle: > > "With Asterisk 1.4, once Asterisk 1.4.N is released, Asterisk 1.4.X is > no longer supported, where X > http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.6.0.tar.gz"; > ?
Since then 1.4.23 has been published, and I saw a number of fixes scheduled for 1.4.24 . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
