[SLUG] any asterisk experts willing to help in initial config?

Hello, I've installed asterisk 1.4.23 on a hosted Xen guest (CentOS 5) and someone with more exposure to Asterisk than me managed to get a basic echo test to work on his office desktop. I also bought credit for termination with grnvoip.com, who also sent me some Asterisk config snippets. But

[SLUG] Re: problem in shell script to merge PDF fils

Please don't take this the wrong way but you can achieve a huge amount with the opensource gui based pdfsam which is GPL'd I think, I use it all the time and love it. It takes care of a lot of your challenges without a single line of scritping :-) Cheers MARK On 19 Feb, 10:28,

[SLUG] installing eeebuntu from thumbdrive

Gentlepeople, I started a thread a couple of weeks ago on this subject. Several suggestions were that Ubuntu had a make bootable thumbdrive tool ready to go. I did (eventually) get around to this solution and I'm happy to say that it just worked in setting up an eeebuntu bootable thumbdrive

[SLUG] Need a lesson in memory

Hi Slugger's It appears I need a lesson in Linux and memory management. If you could treat this request as if coming from a complete numpty please, and simply explain the differences between Cached, Buffered and Application Memory as they pertain to Linux? According to KDE SysGuard, my

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in memory

In short: that's normal, and shouldn't cause your machine to be slow - unless it's starved of RAM, in which case the solution is to get more RAM, not to cache less. Here's some sample output from my machine right now: poll...@andromeda:~$ free total used free shared

[SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

Thanks the response and explanation James. I get the following, sooo... not _too_ bad I guess from that perspective. [k...@bottlenose ~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 20729081987788 85120 0 1710841096132 -/+

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

maybe you should check your interfaces for half/full duplex and if there's errors or collisions... otherwise have a play with vmstat, iostat, mpstat etc - they could point you in a direction to look further, at least it will give you hints to see if the box is actively swapping (have swapped out

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

Kyle == Kyle k...@attitia.com writes: Kyle So I guess I need to look elsewhere as to why my experience is Kyle slow. To clarify my thinking, my 'slow' experience relates to Kyle the Server/Router routing to/from the hosts behind it. Is this on individual connexions or after a connection is

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

Must remember to hit Reply to All Yes, the mail server *is* the box. It also serves DHCP and DNS. But I didn't think they were all that heavy. To address Kelvin's reply, DNS calls for internal and external machines are super quick, so I'm guessing the DNS server is also doing its job properly.

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:35:09PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: Kyle == Kyle k...@attitia.com writes: Kyle So I guess I need to look elsewhere as to why my experience is Kyle slow. To clarify my thinking, my 'slow' experience relates to Kyle the Server/Router routing to/from the hosts behind

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

Hi Alex, No, I doubt it. I have recently checked, tested and setup MTU settings all the way through the chain and that made it a little better, but still not what I would expect from 15Kbps download. Kind Regards Kyle