Freeswitch performance improved after changing default password

Question

I am new to Freeswitch.

After default installation of Freswitch 1.4, I noticed big latency while performing simple telephony operations. i.e. when I called one extension from another, the called number started ringing 10 seconds after initialization of call. Same happened with conference bridge, it took 10 seconds for a callee to enter in conference.

Same time my colleague's Freeswitch was performing well. I inquired him and came to know he only changed default password.

To my surprise when I did that my Freeswitch was faster than light.

It looks a weired case.

Is it default behavior of Freswitch?

Can anyone from Freeswitch elaborate what happened in my case?

Answer 1

Got answer from Freeswitch Team member Anthony Minessale II :

The sample configuration you install when you setup FreeSWITCH actually has an extension that executes sleep 10 when you have the default password set. It also has a large warning message on your console explaining that you should not leave you system running with the default config unless you at least change the default password.

Answer 2

You should change the default password because FreeSwitch will be paused for approximately 10s if you're still using the default config.

Just change the default config and the delay will be gone.