[asterisk-dev] Questions about Message/ast_msg_queue

[Jean Aunis]

Hello,

I am currently using a lot of SIP MESSAGEs, which rely on the 
Message/ast_msg_queue channel in Asterisk. Unless I misunderstood 
something, this channel is acting as a kind of "singleton" : there is 
only one instance of this channel, which processes one message after the 
other. This behaviour makes it more difficult to handle large amounts of 
messages, especially if the dialplan handling the messages takes a long 
time to execute.

So my questions are the following :

1- what is the reason for this "singleton" behaviour ? Why not creating 
one channel for each SIP message ?

2- is it technically possible (and even desirable) to change this 
behaviour ?

Best regards,

Jean Aunis