[Asterisk-Users] RE: SMP Performance

[Nicolas]

How do you setup your snoms?
i have 2 problems:

1. call waiting indicator do not running (busy tone on 2. call).
2. How can i monitor a line like a callmanager with the led on the
function-buttons.

Can you help ?

nicolas

mattf wrote:

> 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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