[asterisk-users] Quality problems with ISDN PRI

[Steve Edwards]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, linuxian iandsd wrote:

> i have HEARD asterisk wasn't made with the idea to run on multi-core
> processors in mind .. the result was that it uses one core all the time ..so
> one single P4 3.4 GHZ would perform better than a far more newser quad one.
> but i might be wrong. but one thing for sure check hardware compatibility
> before you buy anything.

"top" says asterisk 1.2.25 is using multiple cores:

top - 11:09:13 up 12 days, 2 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.41, 0.58, 0.59
Tasks: 116 total,   1 running, 115 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  2.7% us,  9.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 87.7% id,  0.0% wa,  0.3% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu1  :  1.7% us,  4.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 94.3% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu2  :  1.3% us,  4.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 94.3% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu3  :  1.3% us,  3.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 95.6% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   2074900k total,  2050112k used,    24788k free,    62216k buffers
Swap:   779144k total,      292k used,   778852k free,  1846184k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI %CPU    TIME+  %MEM  VIRT  RES  SHR S COMMAND
  7603 root     -11 -20   25   8736:33  1.4 71876  28m 3048 S asterisk
  7767 mysql     16   0    1 422:02.79  1.2  137m  24m 4192 S mysqld

Thanks in advance,
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