[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk's MultiProcessor Ability

Gary Lawrence VOIP at ITcom.Net
Thu May 26 07:17:50 MST 2005


I use a Dual Xeon hyper threaded, top shows it as 4 cpus and the load seems
to be pretty well balanced.

Sincerely;

Gary Lawrence
ITcom.Net
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866.448.2661

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Boehm
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:40 PM
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 distributed 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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