[asterisk-users] Is there real benefits on a SMP machine for Asterisk?

[Matthew J. Roth]

Erik Anderson wrote:
> For this load level (even with high-load transcoding), a multi-core
> machine certainly would not be needed.  That said, it certainly
> wouldn't hurt anything to add on extra cores, especially if they're
> free ;-)
Raul,

The points concerning overall load are valid, but I agree with Erik's 
statement about getting the extra cores if they are free.  Asterisk is 
heavily multi-threaded (one thread per channel plus several core 
threads), so a system with 35 simultaneous calls will happily balance 
the load across 8 (or more) cores.

Regards,

Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer