> > I too am running 6 cards in my system, although not in a "high traffic > > capacity" load environment. > > > > So far my (limited) high-load simulations have shown no problems. > > > So - is it apocryphal that the Digium cards (drivers) won't share > interrupts? > > If there is a real issue with sharing interrupts then it seems to me > to be a bug that needs fixing. PCI bus supports shared interrupts, > why doesn't the hardware/driver?
In most cases, sharing an interrupt is not a problem at all. There have been a few cases where _some_ issue was resolved by moving cards around, however the majority of those seem to be: a) abrupt system changes with no effort to seriously identify the root-cause, b) newbie installations where the condition of the underlying system infrastructure is totally unknown, or, c) wild recommendations that might have had some basis a long time ago but no longer apply. Example: 'cat /proc/interrupts' 9: 1854652239 XT-PIC ehci-hcd, eth0, wcfxo, Intel ICH4 works just fine, and I can't imagine a more demanding irq arrangement where the only nic shares with an x100p, etc. Obviously there are performance limits and expecting multiple quad T1 cards or some other _specific_ high-volume configuration to share one or two interrupts could create a problem. But, engineering a system for those conditions is no more difficult then understanding the requirements of whatever cards are being used and dealing with them appropriately. _______________________________________________ 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
