[asterisk-users] Asterisk scalability

[Steve Totaro]

Link?

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Jan 23, 2008 6:08 PM, Paul Hales <pdhales at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> 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.
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> PaulH
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> 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.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Daniel
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> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Stephen
> > Davies
> > Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2008 7:57 AM
> > To: burke at tailorhosting.com; Asterisk Users Mailing List -
> > Non-Commercial Discussion
> > 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.
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> > Asterisk is highly multi-threaded and definitely takes advantage of
> > multiple cores.
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> > 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).
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> > 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.
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> > Steve
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