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Summary:ASTERISK-04805: [patch] Remove realtime priority for AGI scripts
Reporter:critch (critch)Labels:
Date Opened:2005-08-10 13:17:38Date Closed:2008-01-15 15:44:56.000-0600
Priority:MinorRegression?No
Status:Closed/CompleteComponents:Resources/res_agi
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Environment:Attachments:( 0) 20050810__no_realtime_for_agi.diff.txt
Description:On Wednesday 10 August 2005 12:40, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> When asterisk is run in the pseudo realtime mode, any agi app that
> runs also inherits this priority and can compete with asterisk to
> complete it's task. While some agi apps may not take long to start up
> and then spend a large amount of time waiting for asterisk to reply
> to events, it is the start up time of an agi app that can cause
> problems.
>
> Specifically we have a complex perl script that was causing up to 1
> second of choppy audio on other zap channels when a new call was
> started. It would get worse with the more concurrent calls running as
> asterisk had more work to do and the perl script still had a fixed
> amount of work to get accomplished before it could go to a mostly
> idle state.
>
> After discussions with Tilghman about the solution, here is a set of
> diffs that I think need a moment more of peer review before being
> accepted.
>
> I do have a disclaimer on file with Digium.
Comments:By: Kevin P. Fleming (kpfleming) 2005-08-22 21:28:31

Committed to CVS HEAD, thanks!

By: Digium Subversion (svnbot) 2008-01-15 15:44:56.000-0600

Repository: asterisk
Revision: 6368

U   trunk/asterisk.c
U   trunk/include/asterisk.h
U   trunk/res/res_agi.c

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r6368 | kpfleming | 2008-01-15 15:44:56 -0600 (Tue, 15 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

make sure realtime/high scheduling priority is relinquished before executing an AGI script (issue ASTERISK-4805)

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http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&revision=6368