[asterisk-users] Asterisk IVR Performance

[Mike Clark]

satish patel wrote:
> I am also planning for IVR so u have any kind of script plz suggest me
>
> */David Ruggles <david at safedatausa.com>/* wrote:
>
>     I have written a script that is executed using ExternalIVR(). I am
>     running
>     in to performance issues when I have four or more simultaneous
>     calls running
>     this script. I'm running on a P4 2.8 with 512M, all calls are GSM
>     coming in
>     over IAX from an asterisk box that acts as a switch and handles
>     all PSTN
>     interfaces.
>
>     My question are these:
>
>     Are there ways of optimizing ExternalIVRs? (maybe something like
>     FastAGI)
>     Right now I'm writing in a scripting language, would there be a
>     performance
>     gain from writing in a compiled language? I don't see any serious
>     memory
>     utilization and normally processor utilization is below 50% with
>     spikes to
>     70% under load with four or five ExternalIVRs running.
>
>     I will gladly provide any additional information that would aid in
>     answering
>     these questions.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     David Ruggles
>     CCNA MCSE (NT) CNA A+
>     Network Engineer Safe Data, Inc.
>     (910) 285-7200 david at safedatausa.com
>
We do IVR swith standard dial plan syntax or AEL and do agi calls for 
database lookups/transactions. This works well for us.

Mike Clark