[asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.
I'm trying to install my first channel of FAX. When I run the benchfax utility, I get to various stages and then the program simply hangs. There is no excessive CPU utilization and the benchfax program readily responds to ^C. Sometimes I get fairly far into the test, other times it hangs almost immediately. The version of benchfax version I'm using is 1.0.7. I heard tell of a newer version, 1.0.10, but I have been unable to find it. I'm running CentOS5, on an IBM x3250, , Asterisk 1.6.0.10, with dual Xeon 1.6G processors. In my last test, I got this far (the farthest along so far): [r...@corp-asterisk ~]# ./benchfax benchfax version 1.0.7 Use the '-l' option to see license information for software included in this program. Running test using CCITT FAX test page, US letter size, 204x196 resolution, MMR encoding, ECM enabled and V.17 (14.4kbps) modem NOTE: Each individual test could take 20 seconds or longer; be patient. Test run 1 for flavor 'i686' used 632 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'i686' used 604 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'i686' used 656 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'i686' used 207 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'i686' used 624 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 232 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 668 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 651 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 641 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 649 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 194 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 640 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 673 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 251 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 617 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 613 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 664 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 644 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 628 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 650 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'prescott' used 749 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'prescott' used 672 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'prescott' used 737 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'prescott' used 665 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'prescott' used 649 milliseconds of CPU time. Beginning test run 1 of 5 for flavor 'nocona'... Is there a newer version of this software and can anyone give me an indication if they, too, have had this problem and what they did to get past it. Thanks! Barry ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.
Barry L. Kline wrote: Is there a newer version of this software and can anyone give me an indication if they, too, have had this problem and what they did to get past it. No, version 1.0.7 is the latest version of benchfax. The program takes steps to handle the problems that occur when the tests cannot be performed on a particular CPU, but apparently in this case those measures are not triggered. You say it has stopped at different points as you've run different tests; can you verify that? If it always stops at 'nocona', that would mean one particular type of problem, but if it stops at various different places, then that would point to something very different. -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA skype: kpfleming | jabber: kpflem...@digium.com Check us out at www.digium.com www.asterisk.org ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: You say it has stopped at different points as you've run different tests; can you verify that? If it always stops at 'nocona', that would mean one particular type of problem, but if it stops at various different places, then that would point to something very different. Hello Kevin. Thanks for the reply. I have three examples that follow. The first I ended after 11 minutes. I got as far as nocona, then the hang. The next run had me down to c3 in 8 minutes, before hanging there. I let it run for another 8 minutes or so. Finally, I let the thing run for 24 minutes and only got to nocona again. What is a reasonable time for this entire test suite to finish, if it completed normally? Barry [r...@corp-asterisk ~]# time ./benchfax benchfax version 1.0.7 Use the '-l' option to see license information for software included in this program. Running test using CCITT FAX test page, US letter size, 204x196 resolution, MMR encoding, ECM enabled and V.17 (14.4kbps) modem NOTE: Each individual test could take 20 seconds or longer; be patient. Test run 1 for flavor 'i686' used 658 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'i686' used 632 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'i686' used 413 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'i686' used 188 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'i686' used 202 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 633 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 636 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 651 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 676 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 645 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 632 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 639 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 187 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 481 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 644 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 183 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 676 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 654 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 689 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 611 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'prescott' used 670 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'prescott' used 340 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'prescott' used 484 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'prescott' used 701 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'prescott' used 662 milliseconds of CPU time. Beginning cache-load run for flavor 'nocona'... real11m29.829s user0m16.895s sys 0m3.393s [r...@corp-asterisk ~]# [r...@corp-asterisk ~]# time ./benchfax benchfax version 1.0.7 Use the '-l' option to see license information for software included in this program. Running test using CCITT FAX test page, US letter size, 204x196 resolution, MMR encoding, ECM enabled and V.17 (14.4kbps) modem NOTE: Each individual test could take 20 seconds or longer; be patient. Test run 1 for flavor 'i686' used 648 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'i686' used 680 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'i686' used 674 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'i686' used 625 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'i686' used 633 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 634 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 640 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 634 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 636 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'pentium3m' used 647 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 623 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 616 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 626 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 679 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'pentium-m' used 668 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 448 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 669 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 631 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 645 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'pentium4m' used 652 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'prescott' used 683 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 2 for flavor 'prescott' used 658 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 3 for flavor 'prescott' used 662 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 4 for flavor 'prescott' used 662 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 5 for flavor 'prescott' used 660 milliseconds of CPU time. Test run 1 for flavor 'nocona' used
Re: [asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.
Barry L. Kline wrote: What is a reasonable time for this entire test suite to finish, if it completed normally? There are 15 CPU flavors being tested, and each one will take 3-5 seconds to complete; certainly no more than one minute, on an otherwise idle system. As you can see from your 'time' output, the process really didn't use very much CPU time at all, something must have gone wrong and it is 'waiting' for something to complete... but I wouldn't be able to guess what would be off the top of my head. If you can, run it again under 'strace', capture the output, compress it with gzip or bzip2 and email it to me directly; that may give us a clue what it was doing. -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA skype: kpfleming | jabber: kpflem...@digium.com Check us out at www.digium.com www.asterisk.org ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Free Fax for Asterisk -- benchfax utility hangs.
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: If you can, run it again under 'strace', capture the output, compress it with gzip or bzip2 and email it to me directly; that may give us a clue what it was doing. Requested strace output sent. Barry ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
