[Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance

[mattf]

We are currently running 4 asterisk servers in production all running SMP
and performance is better under SMP than non-SMP. Right now we are averaging
just under 20,000 calls (both in and out) a day on those 4 servers.

As for the "BEST" VOIP phone, that is certainly up for debate. Here are my
opinions:
	Cisco phones work well but are expensive 
	Polycom phones are extremely similar to the Ciscos but are much
cheaper. 
	3com phones are tricky to set up with Asterisk
	Snom phones are very good but take some getting used to
	I don't know of many people who have successfully set up Nortel VOIP
phones on asterisk
	Avaya as always is expensive for what you get
	Pingtel's are pretty but there are current and future support and
compatibility issues so I've heard
	Mitel VOIP phones work but do not offer enough features to justify
the cost right now
	Grandstream phones are cheap(enough said)
	Sipura Analog adapters are very configurable and much cheaper than
Cisco ATA

Hope this helps.

MATT---

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Jackson [mailto:tim at angelinacounty.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:44 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance


25 should be the max ever. This machine used to be my testbed server. I
may end up swapping it out later for a 1U IBM, but I just wanted to make
sure that in the meantime it'd be able to handle what we are doing with
it. We bought it "refurbished" for $600 about a year ago. I was just
wondering about the SMP part, I've been told that it doesn't work well
with SMP, and then I've been told it works fine. I just wanted a 2nd or
3rd opinion before I went ahead and implemented this. Another dumb
question, I've gotten the idea that the best phones out there are the
Cisco 7960s, any other good phones out there that are decently priced?
Nortel? 3Com?

-Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: mattf [mailto:mattf at vicimarketing.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:43 AM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance

There is nothing wrong with running Asterisk on SMP. It runs quite well
actually.

I'm assuming you just have the Quad Xeon 450mhz sitting around because
you
can't buy them new anymore, so it probably isn't costing you anything to
use
it. In which case it isn't a waste. If you are paying more than $800 for
it,
save it and just buy a new P4 for less. A $200 machine may not be able
to
handle 25 concurrent conversations, and may have some used or
sub-standard
parts in it, so that may not be the best choice.

You should be able to have upto 25 channels running on this machine no
problem, How many maximum conversations do you forsee running
concurrently
at one time on this system?

MATT---

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Schulte [mailto:mschulte at netlogic.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:19 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance


Meaning Asterisk won't/can't take advantage of the four CPU's? Or it's
overkill for this scenario?

-----Original Message-----
From: joachim [mailto:zoachien at securax.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:52 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance



Send me the quad and i'll send you a 200$ pc to do this job.

The quad is heavily overpowered.

Joachim.

At 22:00 24/08/2004, you wrote:
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>We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near
>future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we

>were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache)
w/ 
>1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMP
machines? 
>Would we be running into any performance issues with this machine?
>
>Tim Jackson
>Network Engineer
>Angelina County, Texas
>(936)639-4827 office
>(936)414-6723 mobile
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