[Asterisk-Users] Easiest (best?) linux distribution for dedicatedAsterisk box?

[mitcheloc at gmail.com]

You could also look into the official distribution from Digium called Pound Key.

http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/asterisk/

On 6/14/06, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk at mikefedyk.com> wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:15:03PM -0700, shadowym wrote:
> >
> >> FreePBX or AAH(aka trixbox) requires 256MB of RAM minimum to run properly.
> >> Just sitting there doing nothing on my test system it is using 170MB.
> >>
> >
> > How exactly do you meassure memory usage?
> >
> > E.g: on my laptop:
> >
> > $ free
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers   cached
> > Mem:        483056     476320       6736          0    70820     169360
> > -/+ buffers/cache:     236140     246916
> > Swap:       976744       3048     973696
> >
> > Technically you could say that it only has 6.7 MB free. But actually
> > some 220MB are used for buffers and caching by the kernel (because
> > unused memory is wasted memory).
> >
> > BTW: where did you get the idea that Asterisk == FrePBX? Asterisk is not
> > known to require MySQL and Apace to run.
> My home debian linux box runs, iptables, asterisk, apache2, exim,
> dovecot, dhcpd, proftpd and tftpd on a PPRO 200Mhz with 64MB ram for two
> users.
>
> Yep, it swaps a bit, (especially when running something big like emacs),
> but it does what it needs to do and it doesn't have a high load on it.
> The only thing I'm not running is mysql and astmanproxy.
>
> I doubt centos requires much more memory than debian.
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