[Asterisk-Users] will this machine handle it

[James Sizemore]

What does "-p" do?

Mark Spencer wrote:

>You can try using the "-p" option to Asterisk.
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>Mark
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>On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jeff McClure wrote:
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>>Good points. This system currently does not use any SIP or IAX channels (or
>>any other form of VoIP) and only deals with 1 call at a time (the single
>>FXO channel is the only link to the outside). At some point, I may add an
>>IAX link to a friend's * box, but I really don't see this setup ever having
>>to deal with more than 2 concurrent calls (one over IAX, possibly with GSM,
>>the other using just the Zaptel channels with no compression at all).
>>Oh...and voicemail uses GSM, of course.
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>>The current sound quality is pretty good, but what I do hear are tiny
>>little "hiccups" during GSM playback in voicemail. Again, I suspect what
>>I'm hearing is the effect of the load on box spiking due to other
>>processes. Does that sound reasonable?
>>
>>Maybe that extra level of detail can help some folks form opinions about
>>required CPU horsepower.
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>>--On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:43 AM +0000 "WipeOut ."
>><wipeout at linuxmail.org> wrote:
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>>>Hi Jeff..
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>>>What you are asking is a little bit of a grey area because there are a
>>>number of factors that will affect how well you system will perform..
>>>things like the average number of concurrent calls?, are you using VoIP?,
>>>what codecs are you using for the SIP of IAX channels? and no doubt a few
>>>others..
>>>
>>>But here is my experience.. I am using a PII-400 and with 2 concurrent
>>>VoIP calls using G.711 codec the processor barely registers anything.. So
>>>I should thing that this system should handle 10-15 concurrent calls...
>>>If I used the GSM codec for example I an sure this number would drop
>>>significantly..
>>>
>>>Hope that helps..
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>>>>Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>>Right now I'm running * along with a lot of other apps on my firewall
>>>>box,  which is a P-II 400 with 192MB of RAM. I have a single T100P card
>>>>connected  to a channel bank that's using one FXO and two FXS ports.
>>>>
>>>>I want to move * off to another computer (mostly because I think the
>>>>other  apps on the current box are causing enough of a load to affect
>>>>the sound  quality a bit). I'm looking for a computer to put it on, and
>>>>I've found  someone with a P-II 350 with 64MB of RAM (I could steal
>>>>another 64MB from  the firewall if I have to).
>>>>
>>>>So, I need an opinion from some more experienced users. Given the same
>>>>number of ports and assuming I don't run any other apps on the box, is
>>>>that  P-II 350 beefy enough to handle my * setup comfortably?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Jeff
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