[asterisk-users] My Phone Review- Large Scale Corp Deployment.

[Steve Edwards]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, RR wrote:

> On 11/8/06, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
>
>> "top" refreshing every 3 seconds shows the asterisk process consuming from
>> 10% to 70% of the CPU. "top" refreshing every 30 seconds shows around 30%.
>> Does anybody know what causes the "spikes."
>
> Yeah I'd be interested to know as well. I wonder if creation/tear-down
> of sessions does that. A conference in session should eventually get
> to a stable CPU consumption. You might want to have a test system and
> either through sipsak or manually create a bunch of conferences and
> watch the CPU. If you're playing the entry/exit sounds, recoding and
> announcing names, playing participant counts and all of these are
> non-ulaw encoded prompts etc. you will get those spikes as that's
> where codec-translation will happen.

I have alaw, g729, gsm, ulaw, and wav sound file sets so that should 
cover the transcoding bases pretty well.

Thanks in advance,
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