[asterisk-users] Asterisk scalability

[Paul Hales]

There was a cool paper written a a few months ago where they tested some
older dell servers  - full details of specs and tests were available.

PaulH



On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 08:54 +1100, Daniel Cole wrote:
> Sorry to be a little OT.. But may I ask what some more of the specs
> are for that machine? Just trying to get an idea of what different
> hardware can achieve.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> 
> Daniel
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>  
> 
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Davies
> Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2008 7:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk scalability
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> 
>         I'm sure that an Asterisk developer can chime in and give
>         several examples
>         of how Asterisk uses its threads to increase scalability. That
>         said, there 
>         will be a point where the number of core/CPU's won't be the
>         bottleneck so
>         adding more won't help anything.
> 
> 
> 
> Asterisk is highly multi-threaded and definitely takes advantage of
> multiple cores. 
> 
> 
> There are a few places where concurrency could be further improved,
> but its really quite good in 1.4.  (IAX in 1.4 does handle traffic
> using a thread pool so will take advantage of multiple cores). 
> 
> 
> By the way, I have a client with a four-core Xeon box doing SIP to IAX
> conversion - that box can handle 1000 concurrent calls.
> 
> 
> Steve
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