[asterisk-dev] Asterisk scalability

[Benny Amorsen]

Stephen Davies <stephen.l.davies at gmail.com> writes:

> You'd end up essentially doing 50 system calls per sec per CPU to get all
> the data from the kernel into Asterisk and 50 to write the outgoing data.
> Obviously there is lots of hand-waving here, and I've probably reinvented
> something that is already available in the kernel - in which case someone
> please enlighten me.

You can't get it down to 50 system calls per sec unless all calls are
perfectly synchronized. That would cause unnecessary latency
otherwise. However, you could get it down to maybe 1000 calls per
second, and that would be a greate improvement.


/Benny