[asterisk-users] asterisk 1.4 with around 230 SIP connections

[Glenn Cobb]

Is it absolutely necessary to have ALL 230 clients get the message at once?
Could a few clients in each area be paged to get the announcement to
everyone in that area? If these are all soft clients then maybe setting up a
recording and then paging groups and having the recording played to smaller
groups at one time? Just throwing a couple suggestions out...

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Russell Bryant
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:41 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk 1.4 with around 230 SIP connections

BJ Weschke wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>>
>> Using asterisk 1.4 with 100M or 1000M ethernet and 230 SIP clients 
>> and a
>> 64 bit 4200+ box
>> would there be any noticable lag or delay to bring each one of them 
>> into a PAGE mode. so one speaker can talk out on all 230 SIP clients 
>> for a message.
>>   
>  I would have some serious reservations throwing this many clients 
> into an app_meetme room which is the foundation layer for the page 
> functionality.
> 

Well, it may be ok, especially given that the 230 clients are all marked as
listen only.  There isn't any mixing going on at all.

However, there is almost certainly going to be some lag that you may not be
happy with.  What happens is that you are spawning 230 threads to make
outbound calls and connect them to MeetMe, all at the same time.  This
process is far from instantaneous.  :)

I would also be concerned about the effects that this spike in extra
processing would have on the quality of any existing calls on the system.

But, as with most things, the only way to know for sure is to do some
testing.

--
Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.

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