[Asterisk-Users] machine load (was "best dell" a long time ago)

[Simone Cittadini]

>> (with no agi and transcoding) 80 alaw concurrent calls , cdr_mysql, 
>> terminating on one TE410
>> Mem:   3105772k total,   733928k used,  2371844k free,    66668k buffers
>> Cpu(s):   5.0% user,   5.5% system,   0.0% nice,  89.5% idle
>> load average: 0.37, 0.39, 0.41
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> So that is ~80 calls per GB of ram which is 20% of 400 users so that 
> should be 5 or 6GB to handle 100% usage.
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> The load avg is the most important here.  You want to keep it under 
> 1.00 or you have processes waiting which increases jitter.  Your 
> system will be at 80% usage with 160 calls, assuming linear scaling.
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> What are the specs for processor, memory and chipset that you pulled 
> this stat from?
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xeon 3 Ghz, kernel 2.4