Dear folk, I've found this interesting document http://www.sangoma.com/assets/docs/misc/2009_10_09_How_to_Reduce_Asterisk_System_Loads.pdf. After having read it I've tried to set chunk size to 40 for using sangoma + chan_ss7. But it doesn't work. Chan_ss7 seems not to be able able to setup link on mtp level. I got this permanently: [Mar 12 11:00:13] NOTICE[1379] mtp.c: Initialising 1 signalling links [Mar 12 11:00:13] VERBOSE[1582] logger.c: -- Starting MTP thread, pid=21111. [Mar 12 11:00:13] VERBOSE[1583] logger.c: -- Starting monitor thread, pid=21111. [Mar 12 11:00:13] NOTICE[1583] mtp.c: Initialising link 'l1/16', linkset 'siuc', sls 0. [Mar 12 11:00:13] NOTICE[1583] mtp.c: Signalling channel on link 'l1/16' has signalling type 0x0080. [Mar 12 11:00:13] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Starting initial alignment on link 'l1', reason: Initial. [Mar 12 11:00:13] NOTICE[1583] mtp.c: Empty Dahdi output buffer detected, outgoing packets may have been lost on link 'l1'. [Mar 12 11:00:13] VERBOSE[1379] logger.c: -- SS7 channel loaded successfully. [Mar 12 11:00:13] VERBOSE[1379] logger.c: Loaded chan_ss7.so => (SS7 Protocol Support) [Mar 12 11:00:13] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Entering proving state for link 'l1'. [Mar 12 11:00:13] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Aborted initial alignment on link 'l1'. [Mar 12 11:00:14] NOTICE[1583] mtp.c: Excessive poll delay 5163! [Mar 12 11:00:14] NOTICE[1583] mtp.c: Excessive poll delay 5155! [Mar 12 11:00:14] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: link l1 [Mar 12 11:00:14] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Starting initial alignment on link 'l1', reason: t17_timeout. [Mar 12 11:00:14] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Entering proving state for link 'l1'. [Mar 12 11:00:14] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Aborted initial alignment on link 'l1'. [Mar 12 11:00:16] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: link l1 [Mar 12 11:00:16] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Starting initial alignment on link 'l1', reason: t17_timeout. [Mar 12 11:00:16] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Entering proving state for link 'l1'. [Mar 12 11:00:16] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Aborted initial alignment on link 'l1'. [Mar 12 11:00:17] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: link l1 [Mar 12 11:00:17] DEBUG[1583] mtp.c: Starting initial alignment on link ... Has someone already struggled with the same problem? Is there any patch for this? Thank you Hoai-Anh