[asterisk-biz] Performance on Pentium Dual Core CPUs

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> ----- Craig Lawrence <craig at mytel.net.au> wrote:
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>> PS. Dual processors are overkill unless you have an Asterisk version
>> that supports it (we don't).
>>     
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> I don't know what you are talking about here... Asterisk is a heavily threaded application, and will take full advantage of the number of processors/cores in your system. Especially when transcoding is involved, having multiple cores available makes a significant difference.
>
> This has been true for all released versions of Asterisk; there was never a released version of Asterisk that didn't 'support' multiple processors.
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>   
Kevin,

Can you share your expectations how many G729 transcodings can be done 
on dual dual-core Opterons or P4 with 4 Gb of memory on SIP-to-SIP 
environments ( no TDM or echocancelers involved)
My guess is about 250-300 simultaneous calls.

May be I am way to optimistic, that's why I am asking your educated 
expectations.


All the Best!
Sergey.