[Asterisk-biz] AreskiCC - Scaling experiences

[Steve Totaro]

I am using ASTCC for my prepaid solution and have 20,000 pins created in one
batch.  ASTCC's web interface will lockup a computer when I click list cards
because it lists all 20,000 seven digit pins on one page but besides that it
works great.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David John Walsh
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 5:30 AM
> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-biz] AreskiCC - Scaling experiences
> 
> Hello there
> 
> I was wondering if the members of the list would be kind enough to
> post a few sentences regarding their experiences with AreskiCC.  I am
> interested in how well you feel it scales to a larger card base.
> 
> I intended to load my test platform up with 20,000 users, to see how
> it would handle.  The following are my observations:
> 
> 1) editing the code so that it produces "reasonable" sized batches
> fails.  I changed it to 10,000 on the first try and got a fatel error,
> as somthing timed out after 30 seconds in the PHP
> 
> 2) I reduced this to 2000, which on the first batch it worked, on the
> second it created 536 cards, the 3rd 289 cards and now generates
> aproximatly 200 cards each time the submit button is created.
> 
> 3) After about 3,500 cards on the system several of the pages do not
> apear (notably - list customers, billing - wheres the money)
> 
> No delays apear on the "IVR" when at these levels.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1) are the figures above a true limit, or is down to hardware or
> settings in the php.
> 2) does anyone have a testing system that runs to around 20,000 and
> have you experienced these issues
> 3) is there any advice on what spec the hardware needs to be to allow
> it to run at those specs.
> 4) One major issue (for me) is this 30 second time out on generating a
> large number of cards.  Is there a way to generate cards in huge
> numbers, prehaps by not performing it via a web page, or by increasing
> the time out variable.
> 
> My interests in this software do not come from a commericial
> requirement.  I work for a national childrens charity, who have
> vollenteers staffing accomodation sites.  We are looking for a cost
> efficent way of allowing those vollenteers to make personal calls in a
> regulated manner.  These calls are provided at no cost to the
> volenteer, but we have to account them and ensure fair useage of the
> budget allocated.
> 
> Areski seems a great solution, and I'm hoping that some comes back
> with at least hope that it scales!
> 
> Kind regards
> David Walsh
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