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

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Matt Hess wrote:

> Ok, not being a jerk here or anything.. but if *anyone* has links to
> solid and cheap rackmount systems with some sort of LOM and console
> capability such as my netras have I would owe them a beer or 6.
Sun x86 (AMD-based) hardware is not more expensive than netras and far
faster, if you want to stick to Sun. Otherwise, look at servers (like Dell 
18xx) with IPMI capability.

> Moving on..
> 
> Please don't take this the wrong way but isn't that sort of microsoft
> mentality? Just make the huddled masses upgrade.. it's easier or cheaper
> then throwing programmers at code correction. Again.. I'm just saying..  
> no offense intended.
No, it isn't. Asterisk has not been designed to run in a situation where 
CPU starvation is possible. Thus, it won't work well in this case. 
Redesigning it is hard.

> I do get the point that the asterisk community is not interested in
> making my old 8086 act as a national call center.. but you have to admit
> there is definite value to my theory that some things should take
> priority over others.. ie: dsp vs. call signaling.
It is far harder than it looks like. And, the whole point of asterisk as a
platform is that it shouldn't be necessary.

-alex