[Asterisk-Users] 64 Bit Support?

Matthew Boehm mboehm at cytelcom.com
Mon Jan 10 15:20:15 MST 2005


I wouldn't mind seeing the g729 codec written to take advantage of 64bit
processing. Might make a machine capable of handling more PRI -> g729 calls.
Right now the limit is about 80 on a dual 3.2Ghz Xeon machine.

-Matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Miller" <asterisk at scratchspace.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:24 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] 64 Bit Support?


>
> I'm running * on an AMD 64 system with FC3 x86_64, everything works fine
> so far. Programs can be rewritten to take advantage of the the 64 bit
> architecture and the extra computing power. Having seen that many high
> end systems are using 32 bit Xeon based systems for call capacity, I'm
> wondering if/when we might see a * port for 64 bit, and if there will be
> a substantial difference in call capacity. AMD's 64 bit systems are
> comparable in price, in some cases cheaper, and in benchmarks are often
> more powerful than the Intel counterpart (depending on what is running).
> Thoughts?
>
> Chris
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