Re: [asterisk-users] Various extensions ring once and go to voicemail - Thomas Peters

2019-01-15 Thread Eric Wieling

From https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Timing+Interfaces:

res_timing_dahdi uses timing mechanisms provided by DAHDI. This method 
of timing was previously the only means by which Asterisk could receive 
timing. It has the benefit of being efficient, and if a system is 
already going to use DAHDI hardware, then it makes good sense to use 
this timing source. If, however, there is no need for DAHDI other than 
as a timing source, this timing source may seem unattractive. For users 
who are upgrading from Asterisk 1.4 and are used to the ztdummy timing 
interface, res_timing_dahdi provides the interface to DAHDI via the 
dahdi kernel module.


res_timing_timerfd uses a timing mechanism provided directly by the 
Linux kernel. This timing interface is only available on Linux systems 
using a kernel version at least 2.6.25 and a glibc version at least 2.8. 
This interface has the benefit of being very efficient, but at the time 
this is being written, it is a relatively new feature on Linux, meaning 
that its availability is not widespread.


On 01/15/2019 09:53 AM, Thomas Peters wrote:

Carlos and Stefan (and other who have helped):

I DON'T HAVE the res_timing_timerfd.so file. Can I build it? Recompiling 
Asterisk is unrealistic in my position but I wonder if I can build the one 
module. Here's what I do have:

apbx:~ $ locate *res_timing_timerfd*
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.23.1/res/.res_timing_timerfd.makeopts
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.23.1/res/.res_timing_timerfd.moduleinfo
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.23.1/res/res_timing_timerfd.c
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.7.0/res/.res_timing_timerfd.makeopts
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.7.0/res/.res_timing_timerfd.moduleinfo
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.7.0/res/res_timing_timerfd.c

Why I have 1.8.23 and 1.8.7 I don't know. Asterisk on this system is version 
1.8.7.0.

NEXT QUESTION: There are NO timing modules listed in /etc/asterisk/modules.conf at all. 
The only ones that are explicitly loaded are format_wav format_pcm format_mp3 and 
res_musiconhold. And there are "preload" directives for pbx_config.so and 
chan_local.so.

Is res_timing_dahdi.so getting loaded somewhere else? Or is it a default of 
some kind?

SYSTEM TIME OF DAY CLOCK which someone asked about, seems accurate. I did
watch -n1 date
and watched the time tick up, perfectly synchronized to my mobile phone. It 
might be off by a second or so, I'd have a hard time knowing for sure. NTPD is 
running, but not working for some reason. I fixed it (ownership of ntp.conf 
wrong) so now ntpq -pn returns a server ID.



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-Original Message-
From: asterisk-users  On Behalf Of 
Stefan Viljoen
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:05 AM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Various extensions ring once and go to voicemail 
- Thomas Peters

Here’s what I get:

apbx*CLI> module show like timing
Module Description  Use 
Count
res_timing_pthread.so  pthread Timing Interface 0
res_timing_dahdi.soDAHDI Timing Interface   4
2 modules loaded

So what would you suggest? (And thanks in advance.)

Thomas

I've had some good experience with

res_timing_dahdi

both when we ourselves were still on 1.8 and now with us on Asterisk 13 as well.

To force usage of a certain timer, specify in your modules.conf, e. g. to force 
use of DAHDI timing only, I did the following in my modules.conf:

.
.
.
load => res_timing_dahdi.so
noload => res_timing_pthread.so
noload => res_timing_timerfd.so

That said, we have had some weird issues trying to run Asterisk in virtual 
machines - all our instances (16 of them) are physical machines.

We did a deployment at Azure in a Centos 7 "stock Azure" VM awhile ago and it 
suddenly lost the capability to encode .gsm audio files. All .gsm files the virtualised 
Asterisk 13 instances produced were all corrupt and no player would want to play the .gsm 
files. Neither could SOX convert them to anything. So we had to switch over to .wav, and 
then use a mixmonitor hook and manually convert the .wav files back to .gsm in SOX after 
each recording was written by Asterisk in .wav format. There were no errors logged, 
Asterisk just mysteriously lost the capacity to encode .gsm files when running on the 
Azure VM instance we had.

So quite probably the virtual environment / hypervisor you're using is part of 
the issue and switching timing modules around won't solve anything...

Have you checked that the system time is sane, and that one second on a stop 
watch externally to the VM instance, equates to one second inside it?

Because the symptoms described could indicate that the clock in the VM is ju

Re: [asterisk-users] Various extensions ring once and go to voicemail - Thomas Peters

2019-01-15 Thread Thomas Peters
Actually, I was wrong about that. We no longer use OVM. It's actually Citrix 
Xencenter 7.6

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-Original Message-
From: asterisk-users  On Behalf Of 
Doug Lytle
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 9:08 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 

Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Various extensions ring once and go to voicemail 
- Thomas Peters

>>> Carlos and Stefan (and other who have helped):

Thomas,

You stated that your virtual environment was Oracle, would that equate to 
VirtualBox?

Doug

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Re: [asterisk-users] Various extensions ring once and go to voicemail - Thomas Peters

2019-01-15 Thread Doug Lytle
>>> Carlos and Stefan (and other who have helped):

Thomas,

You stated that your virtual environment was Oracle, would that equate to 
VirtualBox?

Doug

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Re: [asterisk-users] Various extensions ring once and go to voicemail - Thomas Peters

2019-01-15 Thread Thomas Peters
Carlos and Stefan (and other who have helped):

I DON'T HAVE the res_timing_timerfd.so file. Can I build it? Recompiling 
Asterisk is unrealistic in my position but I wonder if I can build the one 
module. Here's what I do have: 

apbx:~ $ locate *res_timing_timerfd*
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.23.1/res/.res_timing_timerfd.makeopts
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.23.1/res/.res_timing_timerfd.moduleinfo
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.23.1/res/res_timing_timerfd.c
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.7.0/res/.res_timing_timerfd.makeopts
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.7.0/res/.res_timing_timerfd.moduleinfo
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.7.0/res/res_timing_timerfd.c

Why I have 1.8.23 and 1.8.7 I don't know. Asterisk on this system is version 
1.8.7.0.

NEXT QUESTION: There are NO timing modules listed in /etc/asterisk/modules.conf 
at all. The only ones that are explicitly loaded are format_wav format_pcm 
format_mp3 and res_musiconhold. And there are "preload" directives for 
pbx_config.so and chan_local.so.

Is res_timing_dahdi.so getting loaded somewhere else? Or is it a default of 
some kind?

SYSTEM TIME OF DAY CLOCK which someone asked about, seems accurate. I did 
watch -n1 date
and watched the time tick up, perfectly synchronized to my mobile phone. It 
might be off by a second or so, I'd have a hard time knowing for sure. NTPD is 
running, but not working for some reason. I fixed it (ownership of ntp.conf 
wrong) so now ntpq -pn returns a server ID. 



Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator |  tpet...@mcts.org  
Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or  helpd...@mcts.org
Milwaukee County Transit System 

1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI  53205
Check us out on Facebook & Twitter 

-Original Message-
From: asterisk-users  On Behalf Of 
Stefan Viljoen
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:05 AM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Various extensions ring once and go to voicemail 
- Thomas Peters

Here’s what I get:

apbx*CLI> module show like timing
Module Description  Use 
Count
res_timing_pthread.so  pthread Timing Interface 0
res_timing_dahdi.soDAHDI Timing Interface   4
2 modules loaded

So what would you suggest? (And thanks in advance.)

Thomas

I've had some good experience with 

res_timing_dahdi

both when we ourselves were still on 1.8 and now with us on Asterisk 13 as well.

To force usage of a certain timer, specify in your modules.conf, e. g. to force 
use of DAHDI timing only, I did the following in my modules.conf:

.
.
.
load => res_timing_dahdi.so
noload => res_timing_pthread.so
noload => res_timing_timerfd.so

That said, we have had some weird issues trying to run Asterisk in virtual 
machines - all our instances (16 of them) are physical machines.

We did a deployment at Azure in a Centos 7 "stock Azure" VM awhile ago and it 
suddenly lost the capability to encode .gsm audio files. All .gsm files the 
virtualised Asterisk 13 instances produced were all corrupt and no player would 
want to play the .gsm files. Neither could SOX convert them to anything. So we 
had to switch over to .wav, and then use a mixmonitor hook and manually convert 
the .wav files back to .gsm in SOX after each recording was written by Asterisk 
in .wav format. There were no errors logged, Asterisk just mysteriously lost 
the capacity to encode .gsm files when running on the Azure VM instance we had.

So quite probably the virtual environment / hypervisor you're using is part of 
the issue and switching timing modules around won't solve anything...

Have you checked that the system time is sane, and that one second on a stop 
watch externally to the VM instance, equates to one second inside it?

Because the symptoms described could indicate that the clock in the VM is just 
running too fast - or that some timing implementation detail inside Asterisk 
itself is running too fast.

Regards

Stefan


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Re: [asterisk-users] Various extensions ring once and go to voicemail - Thomas Peters

2019-01-14 Thread Stefan Viljoen
Here’s what I get:

apbx*CLI> module show like timing
Module Description  Use 
Count
res_timing_pthread.so  pthread Timing Interface 0
res_timing_dahdi.soDAHDI Timing Interface   4
2 modules loaded

So what would you suggest? (And thanks in advance.)

Thomas

I've had some good experience with 

res_timing_dahdi

both when we ourselves were still on 1.8 and now with us on Asterisk 13 as well.

To force usage of a certain timer, specify in your modules.conf, e. g. to force 
use of DAHDI timing only, I did the following in my modules.conf:

.
.
.
load => res_timing_dahdi.so
noload => res_timing_pthread.so
noload => res_timing_timerfd.so

That said, we have had some weird issues trying to run Asterisk in virtual 
machines - all our instances (16 of them) are physical machines.

We did a deployment at Azure in a Centos 7 "stock Azure" VM awhile ago and it 
suddenly lost the capability to encode .gsm audio files. All .gsm files the 
virtualised Asterisk 13 instances produced were all corrupt and no player would 
want to play the .gsm files. Neither could SOX convert them to anything. So we 
had to switch over to .wav, and then use a mixmonitor hook and manually convert 
the .wav files back to .gsm in SOX after each recording was written by Asterisk 
in .wav format. There were no errors logged, Asterisk just mysteriously lost 
the capacity to encode .gsm files when running on the Azure VM instance we had.

So quite probably the virtual environment / hypervisor you're using is part of 
the issue and switching timing modules around won't solve anything...

Have you checked that the system time is sane, and that one second on a stop 
watch externally to the VM instance, equates to one second inside it?

Because the symptoms described could indicate that the clock in the VM is just 
running too fast - or that some timing implementation detail inside Asterisk 
itself is running too fast.

Regards

Stefan


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