[asterisk-users] Load testing/burn-in for Sangoma quad PRI card (off list)

[Matt Florell]

I use the VICIDIAL performance testing setup to do this, it's a bit of
work to get running just for a test, but it's very good at simulating
lots of small calls over PRIs and it makes very pretty graphs of
system load.

MATT---

On 8/28/07, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Steve Totaro <stotaro at first-notification.com> wrote:
> > Also, you seemed to miss Brian's main point, keeping calls up is not
> > going to tax your box or prove anything really, you want to create as
> > many short calls as possible. Run BOINC in the background for a CPU
> > burn-in test.
>
> Well - with this situation, I'm not so much concerned about CPU load
> as I am PCI bus stability.  When getting this server set up, the Dell
> BMC caught a few odd PCI errors.  I haven't been able to reproduce
> them.  At the time the errors occurred, I didn't have any active spans
> up, so I couldn't determine if the PCI errors would possibly cause
> calls to drop.  This is my main reasoning for wanting long-running
> calls - I'd let the calls run until I see this error come up again and
> then see if any of the dropped.
>
> Perhaps my troubleshooting logic is flawed, though...
>
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