Machine #1 - HP/Compaq Laptop with Core-2 Duo and 2 Gigs RAM
1) FAST - Loads Quick!
2) acpi=off in grub.conf - checked cat /proc/interrupts and it only showed 1 processor - removed the acpi=off and rebooted, and then two showed - weird.
Mainly just loaded to see what was there - real testing on the next two machines:
Machine #2 - Dell PowerEdge 2900 with 2 Quad-Core Xeon's and 8 Gigs of RAM
1) FAST - This is the fastest loading Trixbox ever.
2) PAE - Hmmm...loading on a machine that has 8 GIG's of RAM, the PAE kernel was selected - unfortunately, all the modules are created against the Non-PAE kernel, and so on the first re-boot after the load it loaded the PAE kernel (cool!) and then proceeded to fail loading Zaptel (not cool) - it threw so many errors that I thought the PAE was causing trouble, so I rebooted, reinstalled, and then on the first boot, caught it and picked the non-PAE kernel and everything seemed to be fine - a quick yum remove kernel-PAE got rid of it and fixed grub.conf although now I can only use less than 4 gigs of my RAM.
A little explanation here - this is a machine for a Data Center used for Disaster Recovery, so it's going to have a LOT of phones attached - It's a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with two Quad-Core Xeon's and 8 Gigabytes of RAM and 6 250-Gigabyte SATA Drives in a RAID-10 array with two hot spares on a PERC 6i Integrated with an Intel PCI-Express 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC - it's really probably overkill for what it's doing, but if you have ever priced Dell servers, you know that sometimes it's cheaper to put MORE into a machine - you cross a price-break point and the discount increases - case in point, with 4 Gigs and 2 Dual Core Xeon's I was over $4,000.00 - switch to the Quad Cores and up the RAM to 8 Gig's and the price drops to $3,300 - not too shabby!
3) zttest gives me a 99.952890% accuracy - good.
3) FreePBX Skinned - Not my favorite - oh well, http://ip-of-box/admin is still available and it only looks a little weird.
4) Announcements at the top of Maint: trixbox CE 2.6 beta 1 released for testing - That seems a little weird considering that this is 2.6.0 released - probably an oversight.
Overall, VERY POSITIVE on this box - It's a pretty new machine, and I tried loading 2.2.12 and 2.4.2 on it and had problems with both - 2.6.0 found ALL the hardware with nary a peep of complaint - going to have to stress-test this, but so far so good.
Machine #3 - Dell PowerEdge SC-440 with a Dual Core Pentium + 1 Gig of RAM
1) Just as fast as the other machine to load.
2) sataraid worked just like it should.
3) zttest of 99.954930% - good.
4) Finds the onboard NIC just like it should - this is a time saver.
5) yum update - Only 10, and only one of them is a Trixbox update - the rest are CentOS updates, and they seem harmless.
VERY POSITIVE for this box as well - This looks like the new standard bearer, and I am not surprised that Kerry took the older versions off of the Download page (although they are still available - don't get excited!) - I am putting this on our Office Production Machine (17 phones hanging off a Fractional PRI with Polycom's) and will pound on it for a week and report back - but so far, it looks GREAT.
Greg
Member Since:
2006-11-19