[Freeswitch-users] best freeswitch timer

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Never mind, I already seem to have the correct show timer -- just a
brain far.

covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:

> Mine says timer_soft instead of what you have -- I have certainly a
> recent kernel, how do I get timerfb going?
> 
> Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
> 
> > <SNIP> we don¹t need all the previous messages on this thread
> > 
> > What you need to know is that if you are using a kernel with timerfd support
> > you do not need to do anything to use it, the Core will figure it out
> > automagically and use it. This means main line kernels 2.6.22 and later and
> > you are good to go.
> > 
> > Doing a show timer on your FS console will reveal something like this...
> > This is showing us the CORE_SOFTTIME_MODULE is being used for timing. The
> > Core Timer uses timerfd
> > 
> > freeswitch at devnode>show timer
> > 
> > type,name,ikey
> > timer,soft,CORE_SOFTTIMER_MODULE
> > 
> > 1 total.
> > 
> > If your kernel does not have timerfd support, then the old core soft timer
> > is used... 
> > 
> > I¹ll look at a small patch so you can know for sure, but, if your kernel
> > supports timerfd and you see CORE_SOFTTIMER_MODULE as the timer, you are
> > using timerfd
> > 
> > K
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