[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk's MultiProcessor Ability

[Matthew Boehm]

"Telephony doesn't use a lot of processor"

Uh..you must not do any G729 -> PRI calls.  Those are workhorse calls.

-Matthew

William Boehlke wrote:
> Telephony doesn't use a lot of processor. We think one of the
> principal arguments for a second one is that you have another
> processor in the unlikely event that your primary fails.
> 
> William Boehlke
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matthew
> Boehm Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:40 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk's MultiProcessor Ability
> 
> We have asterisk running on a quad processor dell. The kernel has been
> compiled with SMP.
> 
> However, asterisk seems to only use 1 processor. 3 of the 4 always
> stay at 100% idle.
> 
> Is it pointless to have a multi-proc machine? I was going to buy a
> new dual 
> 3.6Ghz Xeon server but if nothing will take advantage of the other
> proc... 
> 
> Perhaps my conception of multi-proc/threaded is warped. If asterisk
> is the only thing using CPU, I would expect the load to be
> dristributed amounst the processors. Instead of 1 proc falling to 20%
> idle (80% using on that 1 proc), I should see all 4 procs fall to 80%
> idle (20% used on each). Is this wrong?
> 
> What about the g729 library from digium? Is that multi-proc aware?
> 
> -Matthew
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