[asterisk-users] MeetMe Limits

[Gordon Henderson]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Matt Florell wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We routinely run meetme with over 140 ULAW channels connected to 70
> meetme rooms with no issues on an Intel Core 2 Quad core CPU.
>
> The major factor in capacity would be your CPU and RAM capacity. If
> you have at least a base-level P4 you don't need to worry about 12
> participants.

I'd echo that too - recently been playing with Page() which creates a 
MeetMe conference behind the scenes - on my 1GHz boxes, 15 SIP phones in a 
page group produces virtually no additional load on the box.

Gordon


  >
> MATT---
>
> On 6/8/08, Adrian Marsh <Adrian.Marsh at ubiquisys.com> wrote:
>> I've got to agree.. I've never given it much thought either...
>>
>>  All of my calls are SIP/IAX based, coming in from the PSTN from a peer
>>  like that too..
>>
>>  I've never tracked the total number of conference users... But I'll bet
>>  we've hit at least 10.. And I've never seen the CPU go above 10%.. And
>>  that's on a really low powered (2Ghz, 1Gb ram, Dell 745) box.  But it
>>  will be setup-specific.. So I would look at your CPU and memory stats,
>>  and run some tests and monitor that..
>>
>>
>>  A.
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>  [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of John
>>  covici
>>  Sent: 08 June 2008 16:34
>>  To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>  Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] MeetMe Limits
>>
>>  12 people is nothing -- I do 20 regularly -- however you may want to
>>  have them come in as muted or tell them to mute themselves, because the
>>  latency can cause very severe echoes if they are on a speaker phone or
>>  cell phone.
>>
>>  on Sunday 06/08/2008 Sam(asterisk at net153.net) wrote  > Actually I think
>>  they will all be calling in using regular pstn phones  > and cell
>>  phones.
>>  >
>>  > Sam
>>  >
>>  > Al Baker wrote:
>>  >> The 2 big questions are:
>>  >> -Are all participants using QoS end to end ?
>>  >>
>>  >> -Are all of them using the SAME CODEC. As the amount of Transcoding
>>  goes up,  > > the work on the * box goes up and can be a problem.
>>  >>
>>  >> Sam wrote:
>>  >>> I am thinking about using my asterisk server to host a conference
>>  with  > >> about 12 other people from around the USA.  Bandwidth issues
>>  aside, will  > >> this work or will all the different latencies cause
>>  issues?  Yea I know,  > >> I could just "try it and find out" but it is
>>  going to take alot of time  > >> to get everyones schedule to line up, I
>>  don't want to go through the  > >> trouble if I will just be
>>  disappointed.
>>  >>>
>>  >>> Thanks,
>>  >>>
>>  >>> Sam
>>  >>>
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