[Freeswitch-users] Kernel timer warning with CentOS 5.4

[Anthony Minessale]

we are still wary about 5.3 due to bugs reported in libc.
What number does it say it detected for the gap?


On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Bruce Hopkins <jbrucehopkins at gmail.com>wrote:

> OK - I've realised I do get the same warning with CentOS 5.3, it just goes
> past more quickly so I didn't see it.  Maybe it is just the hardware ....
>
>
> On 28 February 2010 15:37, Bruce Hopkins <jbrucehopkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder if anyone would be able to advise please:
>>
>> When I build FreeSWITCH on yum updated CentOS 5.4, I get a warning when I
>> start FreeSWITCH that
>>
>> "Abnormally large timer gap detected"
>> "Do you have your kernel timer set to greater than 1kHz?  You may
>> experience audio problems".
>>
>> I get no such warning if I build on CentOS 5.3, and the test timings it
>> measures on starting FreeSWITCH do look lower.  All I was doing to upgrade
>> to Centos5.4 was a yum update on the 5.3 build.
>>
>> I guess the warning comes from here:
>> http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/browse/~raw,r=16409/FreeSWITCH/src/switch_time.c<http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/browse/%7Eraw,r=16409/FreeSWITCH/src/switch_time.c>
>>
>> This is all on pretty low spec hardware - a couple of different Dell
>> optiplex p4's I use for testing.
>>
>> Does anyone happen to know if I should just stick to Cent)S 5.3, or use
>> 5.4 and not worry about the warnings, or if there is something I can do to
>> fix the problem it is warning about.  Perhaps it is just that I shouldn't
>> use such crummy hardware?!
>>
>> Many thanks in advance
>> Bruce
>>
>
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