[Freeswitch-users] Kernel timer warning with CentOS 5.4

Tihomir Culjaga tculjaga at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 01:42:49 PST 2010


i have the same issue but on centos 4.8 ... on 5.4 doesn't complain...

what is this related to ?

T.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Bruce Hopkins <jbrucehopkins at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
>
> Many, many apologies to take so long to reply - I failed to notice your
> response.  Sorry !
>
> It seems to be variable.  Most times (on CentOS 5.3) when I start FS it
> tells me it is around 1995ms.  Occasionally it is lower (sub 1000ms) and
> then does not give a warning.
>
> Best wishes
> Bruce
>
>
> On 1 March 2010 16:47, Anthony Minessale <anthony.minessale at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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