> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-users-owner@NetBSD.org 
> [mailto:netbsd-users-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of Laine Stump
> Sent: 06 May 2005 03:53
> To: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org
> Subject: asterisk from pkgsrc leads to high load average
> 
> Yesterday I installed asterisk from pkgsrc, and when I run 
> it, my load average goes up to 10 or so, even though systat 
> and top both show the cpu usage as effectively 0 (and there 
> are no SIP/any other type of calls coming in/going out of the 
> box). I tried getting the latest asterisk from the asterisk 
> CVS repository and building that, and I see the same thing. 
> My system is a stock NetBSD 2.0 release.
> 
> Is anyone else running asterisk seeing this? Any idea where 
> it might come from?

I ran asterisk on a Sun SS20 while doing some preliminary testing on it and
found that the prime culprit for high loads was the playing of audio samples
for the voicemail and call holding music. You may want to look into that.
I'd imagine this query may be better serviced on the appropriate asterisk
mailing list, though.

Gary