[asterisk-dev] HW requirements for a big conference server

[Jared Mauch]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:11:02PM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
> Geoffrey Mina wrote:
> > I think you are not going to get MeetMe to work reliably with 200
> > concurrent users.  There are some elements of the MeetMe architecture
> > which don't allow it to scale very well.  Conference (app_conference)
> > could probably handle 200 users on your current hardware.  It doesn't
> > have all the bells and whistles of MeetMe, but it does the core job of
> > conferencing lots of users very well.
> 
> I have never personally tested a conference that big, so I can't speak 
> directly to the original question.  However, this post doesn't really 
> make sense to me.

	I do quarterly calls with 65-80 people all coming in
via SIP w/ app_meetme + dahdi_dummy

	The CPU usage impact is very limited.  (They're all g711ulaw
endpoints).

	This is w/ 2 proc Amd Opteron 242 1.6ghz w/ 2G DRAM.

	(I think it's a sun v20z).

	- Jared

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