[Asterisk-biz] Large Asterisk Setup (~500 Concurrent Calls +Scalability)

[Xu Wang]

could someone explain what makes PCI bus an issue with quad-span? is it
address-conflict or bandwidth issue?

thanks!
steven

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Brian West
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:37 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Large Asterisk Setup (~500 Concurrent Calls
+Scalability)



On Apr 20, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Matt Roth wrote:

> Allow me to clarify that statement.  The traffic on the PCI bus to the
> CPU is the bottleneck.  We have sent emails to Digium regarding
> multiple quad-span cards in a single PC-class machine and they
> recommended against it for this reason.
>

Not if you get a good board with a dedicated bus per PCI slot.

/b

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