[Asterisk-Users] low-cost * (newbie question)

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 05:14, duncan wrote:
> >gnophone on your * server will require X on your * server, and that
> >would not be recomended. On my 1ghz AMD chip the screensaver could cause
> >a severe degradation on my VoIP channels. Put gnophone on your other
> >asterisk boxes and call each other.
> 
> agreed, this is good advice, but you can run asterisk on a machine also 
> running X without _too_ much of a performance hit, just make sure you have 
> a blank screensaver set - rather than one that activally involves 
> processing to reder itself.  likewise its a bad idea to install seti or 
> other programs like it on a server.

I used this as a good reason to buy a new desktop for home use so the
1ghz machine was solely for my home asterisk machine. It doesn't run X
at all now. Same for my asterisk server at work, it never had X
installed on it.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>