[asterisk-users] Asterisk scalability

[Paul Hales]

http://www.transnexus.com/White%
20Papers/asterisk_V1-4-11_performance.htm

It was the bottom news item on voip-info.org - I was worried I would
have to really search for it!

later,

PaulH


On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:30 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:

> Link?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008 6:08 PM, Paul Hales <pdhales at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ______________________________________________________________________
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >         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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