[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH on Raspberry Pi - OpenVPN gateway, B2BUA

[Ken Rice]

People that put /tmp in tmpfs should be shot!


On 3/27/13 4:15 PM, "Dmitry Lysenko" <dvl36.ripe.nick at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is strange. I build vanilla kernels using debians make-kpkg without any
> problem. Swap does not used.
> Maybe freeswitch .deb build script writes intermediate sources to tmpfs (in
> RAM)? 
> 
> 
> 2013/3/27 Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>
>>     
>>  Yes that is right, you will not hit out of memory issues if just doing a
>> compile, but if using the debian packaging stuff you will. I think it is
>> within the part where it gets the various sources and then produces the
>> debian source tarball, so is not actually the compile stage.
>>  
>>  Michael Whapples
>> 
>>  
>> On 27/03/2013 16:47, Dmitry Lysenko wrote:
>>  
>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>> Hi!
>>>  
>>> I builded freeswitch from sources on Seagate Goflex Home (1200Mhz ARMv5TE,
>>> 128Mb, Debian Wheezy)  many, many times. Never experiences 'out of memory'.
>>> Has HDD connected and swap enabled, but vm.swapiness set to 0, so swap do
>>> not even used. I checked this. Swap used in 'top' is always 0.
>>>  
>>> But I never used debian package build system for freeswitch.
>>>  
>>> Best Regards,
>>>  
>>>  Dmitry.
>>>  
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>>  
>>> 2013/3/27 Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>
>>>  
>>>>  
>>>>  While not necessarily being much faster for compiling, I found you can
>>>> build raspbian packages using the debian package stuff by using qemu on
>>>> another computer. If you want to build raspbian packages I found that on my
>>>> raspberrypi (a model B with 512MB of RAM) that it ran out of memory (I
>>>> believe it happened in the earlier stages where it was getting the various
>>>> source and either extracting or packing it into a source archive) and to
>>>> use swap files is very slow and probably not good for the SD card anyway,
>>>> qemu does overcome these limits.
>>>>  
>>>>  I know that cross compiling might be faster but I never found enough
>>>> information out there to help me get such a system up and running and I was
>>>> unsure whether this would lead to a system where I could compile a raspbian
>>>> package using the debian stuff of freeswitch. Qemu was relatively simple to
>>>> set up (I think I mainly used a wiki page from the raspberrypi section of
>>>> elinux.org <http://elinux.org> ).
>>>>  
>>>>  Michael Whapples
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> On 27/03/2013 00:22, Raymond Chandler wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>>>  
>>>>> On 13-03-26 05:52 AM, Peter P GMX wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>  
>>>>>>  Freeswitch compiled native from GIT (this really takes a while)
>>>>>>  
>>>>>  For what it's worth, I've been playing with using ccache and distcc on a
>>>>> beefier box to cross-compile freeswitch from my raspi.  I haven't done
>>>>> verifiable benchmarks, but it does seem to cut the compile time down
>>>>> considerably when you offload the compiling.  Raspi seems to be gaining
>>>>> enough traction that it might be worthwhile to add a wiki page or two
>>>>> devoted to them with little tips and tricks to make life easier.
>>>>>  
>>>>>  -Ray
>>>>>  
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