[Freeswitch-users] best freeswitch timer

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

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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