[Asterisk-Users] How big .CONF files can be?

[Brian West]

Not really it just takes about 2 min for it to settle down and actually
start working :P (and don't reload)

bkw

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael Bielicki
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:33 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] How big .CONF files can be?
> 
> 30.000 entries in iax.conf will kill * on startup
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:39:23 +0200, Jens Kübler <cleanerx at au.hadiko.de>
> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2004 14:04 schrieb Goran Dj:
> > > I'm new to Asterisk.
> > > How big can be sip.conf (and other: iax.conf, extensions.conf...)
> > > Is there point when I must use DB (MySQL...) instead of pure .conf?
> > >
> > There is no real answer to this question.
> > Databases are always a good choice as the search strategies are
> substantially
> > faster and the administration is much easier.
> > If you only got few extensions don't use a database as it's not worth
> the work
> > for the interfaces to setup.
> >
> > For example if a peer is searched in the conf file the average time will
> be
> > N/2 to find the peer where N is the number of peers listed.
> >
> > Most databases should be able to search for this entry in
> > log (N) time which for big N is far better than the above.
> >
> > Generally speaking a sip.conf can be as large as your ram but you
> certainly
> > don't want to check that out.
> >
> > Jens
> >
> >
> >
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