The IO-APIC may originally have been a feature introduced on jigh end servers running dual processor, but in the past several years it has become a more universally supported feature. The IO-APIC/APIC is part of the chipset, not of the processor, so should be processor type nuetral.
Doing a qucik check of my server inventory, I find that all my systems have IO-APIC enabled and functional... and the servers range from dual Xeon Intel boards to single processor P4 Intel servers to no name MSI boards with the imfamous "Athlon Pro" cpu... (you remember these low quality Athlon boards with an Athlon processor soldered directly to the board)... And a quick check on dogpile reveals that most chipsets from Intel, SIS, nVidea, ATI, Via and others have either an APIC built in or as an external "glue" component. So... give it a try... If your board does not support it (but being a recent Asus board - it should) it will not adversely affect your system. Regards, Derek ----- Original Message ----- From: "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk > dbruce wrote: > > >The solution to the IRQ issue is IO-APIC. > > > >Recompile your kernel with IO-APIC support (most new motherboards support > >IO-APIC)... If your board supports it, It WILL solve all your IRQ issues... > >If your board does not support it then it will make no difference. > > > > > I've never heard about IO-APIC before, so I just did a Google search. > The articles I found say that it's an Intel thing, and, since I have an > AMD processor w/ ASUS motherboard, it's unlikely it'll work, right? > Even so, it sounds interesting. But does it apply to single-processor > systems, even if they're using they're using Intel processors and Intel > chipsets? The articles say this is for SMP systems ... > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
