[Asterisk-Users] system reboot often?

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 20:42, el Flynn wrote:
> Steven Critchfield wrote:
> > 
> > It isn't advisable to have "many" Zap cards in a machine. If you are
> > adding analog cards, you quickly run out of PCI slots before you get
> > very far. If you are adding T1/E1 cards, you quickly get to a point
> > where it is too risky to have that many circuits on a single x86 PC. The
> > whole point of X86 PCs is that they are cheap enough to put several in
> > use when you need it instead of building one behemoth machine.
> 
> This may have crept up elsewhere in the list but I thought it might be 
> relevant in this thread:
> 
> Would having 2 of the Quad T1/E1 cards in a single machine, handling 
> about 140 ZAP -> ZAP channels be ok? Or would that be overloading the 
> box and/or asterisk?

Zap to Zap shouldn't be too bad except for echo cancel and PCI load. I
think it also depends on how fast you are setting up and tearing down.
Too many variables to say yes or no to your situation.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>