[Asterisk-Dev] spike / asterisk hang? <- On a 360MHz CPU - no, 440 :)

Daniel Pocock daniel at readytechnology.co.uk
Fri Jul 15 12:30:34 MST 2005


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>>But heck.. I suppose I can just ask this question.. why the heck does
>>asterisk generate so many traps and system calls when processing a call?
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>Because it has to.
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Excuse me for butting in, but can you be more specific? I'd love to see 
the answer to Matt's question.

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>>When completely idle my asterisk system sees about an average of 70 sys 
>>traps a second.. when a call comes in.. the sys traps alone increase 
>>over a 1000% increase.. and that is to a simple dialplan of just:
>>exten => 401,1,Dial(SIP/401)
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>>So I guess my question has morphed into something along the lines of:
>>Why is the dialplan so expensive to parse and has or is any work going
>>into making it more system friendly or efficient?
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>No, it is time to get with the times. Get decent hardware.
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>-alex
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